He received his MSEE summa cum laude from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) in 1997, and his Ph.D. degree from UCLA in 2002, focusing on wireless embedded networked systems. Prior to starting at UCSD, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1997 to 1999, he worked at IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) on turbo coding. His current research interests are wireless networks, sensor networks, low power embedded systems, and the interplay between networking protocols and wireless communications.