He received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Lebanese American University, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University, and an M.S.E. in Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. From 2004 through 2010 he was a research and development engineer with the LabVIEW Control Design and Dynamical Systems Simulation Group at National Instruments Corporation. He is a senior member of the IEEE and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. His research interests include cyber-physical systems, autonomous vehicle navigation, optimal information gathering in stochastic environments, and intelligent transportation systems.