He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University in 2009. He received an M.S. at Rice (2005) and B.S. with honors from the University of Texas at Austin (2003), both in ECE. His research interests include wireless networking and embedded systems, specifically focused on deployment, measurement, and analysis of large-scale wireless networks and development of embedded protocols for network hardware. He was the Chief Network Architect for the Technology For All (TFA) Network, a mesh deployment in Houston, TX that serves 4,000 users in an under-resourced community. He received the Ralph Budd Award for the best engineering thesis at Rice University (2010), the NSF CAREER Award (2012), and the Golden Mustang Teaching Award (2014).