He received his Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands), followed by a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research is focused on theoretical and applied multidisciplinary design optimization using high-performance physics-based computation, uncertainty quantification, scientific computing, renewable energy and model-free control algorithms. He is a Technical Committee in International Energy Agency (Task 37), a Senior Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and a Technical Committee in AIAA Aerospace Design and Structures Group.