He received PhD in Computer Science from Michigan State University, for which he was awarded the Fitch-Beach Outstanding Graduate Research Award. He received BE in Electrical Engineering from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) Pakistan, for which he was awarded Dean's Plaque for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. He is a recipient of Best Paper Awards at the 2017 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) and the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) as well as the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award at the 2018 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS). He is also a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. His research focuses on measurement and modeling of networking, security, and privacy issues.