He received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and his Ph.D. in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. He worked as a Postdoctoral Associate with Prof. Nicholas Fang in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from Autumn 2011 to Spring 2013. He joined the University of Washington faculty in September of 2013. Prof. Boechler received the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program award in 2015 and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program award in 2016.