I’m super passionate about tackling some of the world's grandest challenges. I do my work through the lenses of an entrepreneur, engineer, and academic who thinks translationally from research at the bench to solutions in the field.
I’ve founded and scaled multiple companies, Source Global in 2015 to commercialize the Hydropanel, a technology that makes clean, safe drinking water from the air independent of infrastructure. That technology is now deployed in over 50 countries across more than 500 projects. I founded Fluidic Energy in 2007, the first company in the world to prove a high cycle life metal-air battery in the field. Both companies and several others were developed from the research in my group at Arizona State University. I was awarded the McNulty Prize by the Aspen Institute in 2022, given to those ‘who are focused on dismantling our world’s toughest problems’. I was also honored with the Lemelson-MIT Prize in 2019, the largest prize for invention in the USA. And I was named by The Aspen Institute as a 2015 Henry Crown Fellow and among the "TR35," by MIT’s Technology Review in 2009. I currently have 104 granted US patents. I received my BSE in Materials Science and Engineering from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in the same discipline from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.