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 working on issues regarding shock formation in fluids with Jared Speck and Marcelo Disconzi at Vanderbilt University between 2020 and 2024. He started as an Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech in 2024.