He completed his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Harvard College, his MD and PhD (Neuroscience) degrees at the University of California at San Francisco, and neurology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. He joined Boston Children's Hospital as an instructor in 2010 and started his own independent research group in 2013. He is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.