He received his BS in 2007 from WPI and his PhD in 2013 from Stanford University. He has co-authored 26 peer-reviewed papers that have appeared in Nano Letters, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, and other journals, and have collectively been cited over 1,600 times. His work on materials for solar energy conversion is currently funded by the National Science Foundation and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. At WPI, he is the recipient of the James Nichols Heald Research Award.