His research interests are in security in networked systems, with particular interest in the areas of wireless, future Internet architectures, cyberphysical systems, and medical systems. He received the B.S. degree in computer science and pure mathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2003. After receiving his Ph.D. degree, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.