Within CSL, he co-founded and co-directs the Center for People & Infrastructures (CPI), which brings together engineers, social scientists, and artists to study and design the tenuous interactions between modern infrastructures and their users. He works on applications of control, game, and information and optimization theory to a variety of fields; most recently to smart infrastructures, and especially transportation systems. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and an active member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Control Systems and the IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Smart Cities. He is currently serving as an associate editor of Systems & Control Letters.