Jae received his B.A. in Chemistry at Cornell University. He then went to California Institute of Technology and worked in Dr. Shu-ou Shan's lab to obtain his Ph.D. in Chemistry.  For postdoctoral training, he worked in Dr. Judith Frydman's lab at Stanford University. 

Lucia received her BS in Biochemistry and MS in Cell & Molecular Biology from Fordham University. There, she trained in Dr. Edward Dubrovsky’s molecular genetics lab, studying the pathological consequences of mutations in the tRNA processing enzyme, RNase Z.