He obtained a doctorate in Aerospace engineering and a Master’s degree in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to his appointment in 2013 at the University of Michigan, he spent time at Stanford University and the University of Glasgow. At the University of Michigan, he is the Director of the Center for Data-driven Computational Physics and the Airforce Center of Excellence on Rocket Combustor Dynamics. His research interests are in data-driven and reduced order modeling, turbulence modeling and simulations and numerical methods for partial differential equations.