He received his Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2005. After completing his George W. Beadle postdoctoral fellowship at the Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago in the field of biosciences and chemistry, he joined the UConn faculty in late 2008. He has published over 20 journal papers on Science, JACS, Chem Commun, Macromol, etc.