He was an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute prior to joining the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2013 and 2009, respectively. His graduate research focused on scramjet unstart phenomena and its mitigation using plasma-assisted flow control. He worked for one and a half year as a post-doctora researcher at Stanford University, developing scalar imaging-based velocimetry.