His research interests span the areas of security and trusted computing. He finished his PhD in 2013 at Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems / Saarland University, Germany. During his PhD, he built several systems aimed at improving trust in cloud, enterprise, and mobile platforms. He developed novel policy-based trusted execution runtimes that take advantage of trusted computing hardware, namely Trusted Platform Module (TPM) in the context of cloud infrastructures, and ARM TrustZone in the context of mobile devices. His work has resulted in the publication of multiple peer-reviewed articles in journals and conferences, such as ASPLOS, USENIX Security, PETS, and Middleware. He was the recipient of a best paper award in Middleware’07.