He received his PhD degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kui's current research interest spans Cloud & Outsourcing Security, Wireless & Wearable System Security, and Human-centered Computing. His research has been supported by NSF, DoE, AFRL, MSR, and Amazon. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER Award in 2011 and Sigma Xi/IIT Research Excellence Award in 2012. Kui received several Best Paper Awards including IEEE ICNP 2011. He currently serves as an associate editor for IEEE TMC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE IoT, IEEE TSG, etc. Kui is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE, and a past board member of Internet Privacy Task Force, State of Illinois.