Prior to joining UNC, he was an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and a founding member of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute. From 1999-2002, he was a member of technical staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. He has received several awards including a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2006, and best paper awards at flagship security conferences including IEEE Security and Privacy and USENIX Security Symposium. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Like the speaker before him, he does not like writing about himself in the third person.