Prior to joining Duke in Fall 2017, he was an Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor in the Department of NanoEngineering at UC San Diego. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1998, and Ph.D. degree, also in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Notre Dame in 2003. He did postdoctoral research at Princeton University and New York University. Professor Arya’s research focuses on the development and application of computational methods to gain a molecular-level understanding of various nanoscale systems of interest, including biomolecular motors, DNA-based devices, and nanoparticle-polymer composites.