He leads the VIMAN Lab – Virtualization, Multimedia and Networking Lab. Before coming to the University in 2013, he was a research director at Ohio Supercomputer Center/Ohio Academic Resources Network at The Ohio State University. He has published more than 40 papers in various conference and journal venues. As the principal investigator, he has successfully led teams of graduate, undergraduate and postdoctoral fellows in numerous federal-, state- and industry-sponsored research and development projects. His research sponsors include the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, VMware, Dell, IBM, Verizon, Cisco, Huawei Technologies, Internet2 and others. He serves as an editor for “IEEE Communications Magazine” and “Journal of Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Technology.”