Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 2012, he was a Post-doctoral research associate in the EE department at Princeton University from 2010-2012 (working with H. Vincent Poor). He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park in 2010 (advised by Sennur Ulukus) and the B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 2004. His research interests are in network information theory, wireless communications, role of feedback in network interference management and information theoretic security. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award in the Communication Theory Symposium at IEEE Globecom 2011.