He received the B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University, all in mechanical engineering. He was previously an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa and at The Ohio State University and a summer faculty research fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.