He holds a joint appointment as a Chemist Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, is an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and an Honorary Fellow at Imperial College. Prior to joining MIT, he received his B.SE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan (1998), a Ph.D. in Biochemistry/ Biophysics at the California Institute of Technology (2002), performed postdoctoral work in the Bioengineering Department of the University of California ? Berkeley (2003), and was a faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California ? San Francisco (2003-2011).