He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas in 2013. He received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Uludag University (Bursa, Turkey) in 1999 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 2001. He held various positions at Sprint as a support, system, and design engineer from 2001 until 2008. His research interests are in resilient networks. He is a member of the IEEE Communications Society, ACM SIGCOMM, and Sigma Xi.