Leo entered the PhD program at MSU in 2015, and started his dissertation research under the supervision of Prof. Willie Wong in 2016.
During his PhD tenure he held an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. His PhD dissertation was on the topic of The vector field method and its applications to nonlinear evolution equations. Leo was awarded a prestigious NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship; he will be working on issues regarding shock formation in fluids with Jared Speck and Marcelo Disconzi at Vanderbilt University starting August of 2020.