He is the R. P. Simmons Professor of Ceramics and Electronic Materials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[1][2] He did his postdoctoral research at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and joined the MIT faculty in 1975.
[3] His research has focused on the defects, diffusion and electronic structure of metal oxides and their integration into sensors as well as the microelectromechanical effects in solar cells and fuel cells.
[1][3][4] He also co-founded Boston Systems, a company based on his invention of the micro-machining of silicon carbide.
[6] He received the Thomas Egleston Medal from the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science for his contributions to the field of electroceramics in 2019.