- University of Utah (BS; research with Peter Beal)
- California Institute of Technology
(Ph.D. with Brian Stoltz) - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
(Postdoc with Samuel Danishefsky) - 2008 – Assistant Professor, University of Houston
- 2020 – Promoted to Full Professor
- Research Interests: electrophilic deboronation, carbene/alkyne cascade reactions, and complex small molecule synthesis.