He received his B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, in 1998 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, 2004. His research interests are in sensor networks, wireless networks, and flash-based storage systems. He has served on the program committees of a number of top conferences including NSDI and SenSys, and is an editor for the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the IBM Faculty Partnership Award, and was selected as a UMass Chancellor's Junior Faculty Fellow.