He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University in 2007. He spent 4 years in the Department of Energy National Labs, as a Director’s research fellow (2008-2009) at Los Alamos National Laboratory and as a Staff Scientist (2009-2011) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Prior to Ph.D. studies at Penn State, he worked as a Consulting Engineer for 4 years at Fluent India Pvt. Ltd, a fully-owned subsidiary of Fluent Inc., currently Ansys Inc. His research interests include transport, materials and manufacturing aspects in electrochemical energy storage and conversion, mesoscopic modeling, and virtual materials design.