He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. Between 2005 and 2007, he worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received the NSF-CAREER Award in 2010, and two Lumley Research Awards for Research Excellence in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He is a co-author of the 2012 IEEE WiOpt Conference Best Student Paper, and the 2016 IEEE Infocom Best Paper Awards. He has served as a TPC co-chair of IEEE WiOpt in 2014 and of ACM Mobihoc in 2017, and is an Associate Editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking since 2015.