He received his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 2004 and his M.S. and B.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, China, in 1996 and 1992, respectively. Professor Shi received USA NSF CAREER award in 2006. His current research interests include hardware mechanisms for secure and reliable computing, side channel attacks and countermeasures, primitives for ultra-efficient cipher designs, sensor network security, application specific instruction-set instruction processor(ASIP) and embedded system designs, and underwater sensor networks.