He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Part of this time was spent as a doctoral fellow at the National Center for Digital Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Prior to that he earned a JD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Shah’s research seeks to understand the relationship between