Justus Ndukaife received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 2017 during which he received the 2017 prestigious Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award for outstanding Ph.D. dissertation, an award given to the best doctoral candidate at Purdue University every year. His other honors include the Purdue College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, the NSBE Golden Torch Award, and Best Paper Award at the ASME conference. His research works have been published in top peer-reviewed journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Science and ACS Nano.