His Ph.D. was conferred by the University of California, Davis under the mentorship of Professor Rod Balhorn.

He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Biology and Biotechnology Research Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

He was an NIH postdoctoral fellow in biophysics at UCLA with Professors Juli Feigon and Frank Anet.

He currently serves as associate director of the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB).

Hud uses various experimental techniques to elucidate the structures and physical properties of DNA and RNA polymers, including investigations of how these molecules are packaged within living cells and viruses.