Dr. Banks received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2006. Subsequently he completed postdoctoral appointments at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. In 2010 he was appointed as a staff scientist at LLNL where he remained until moving back to RPI. In  2015 he was appointed the Eliza Ricketts Foundation Career Development Chair in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at RPI, and was promoted to full professor in 2023.