In 2002, he received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from MIT under the supervision of Howard Brenner. Prior to arriving at Minnesota in 2006, he worked as an HFSP postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Jean-Louis Viovy at Institut Curie (Paris, France). His work at Minnesota has been recognized by a Packard Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Dreyfus New Faculty Award, and the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.