Prior to joining Florida Tech in August 2015, he worked as a senior engineer with the Digital Media and Communications (DMC) R&D Center, Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea, and as a postdoctoral research scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, where he received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering in 2012. His current research interests include network modeling and performance analysis, sampling, estimation and inference of massive networks, social network analysis, and wireless and mobile networks.