He was an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Utah State University from 2011 to 2015. He received his Ph.D. in ECE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2011. His main research interests include wireless networking and cyber security, with current emphases on cross-layer optimization with MIMO and smart antennas, wireless and spectrum security, privacy-preserving big data analytics, and cyber-physical system security. He received the NSF Early Faculty Development (CAREER) Award in 2014, and the ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award in 2016. He has won a distinguished paper award from ACM ASIACCS 2013, and CCC blue sky ideas award for best vision papers at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2015. He serves on the TPC of several premier conferences including IEEE INFOCOM, CNS, Globecom, ICC, ACM ASIACCS, and WiSec. He is a member of both IEEE and ACM.