Dustin is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He earned his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University in 2007. In 2010, Dustin and a couple of his fellow graduate students founded a student chapter of Engineering World Health at Texas A&M University, and he served as president of the organization until fall 2012. Dustin traveled to Rwanda, Africa in the summer of 2013, where he served as a teaching assistant for the two-month program.