He received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT in 2004, and a B.S./M.S. from The Ohio State University. His main research area is computing the properties of materials from the first-principles of quantum mechanics. His current interests include: strongly correlated electron materials, harnessing high throughput and massively parallel computing in materials physics, data based approaches in the materials genome initiative, and new approaches to the many-Fermion problem.