He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006, was the recipient of DoD-awarded Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and the NSF CAREER award in in 2008, and is current on the steering committee of the TAMU Center for Autonomous Vehicles and Sensor Systems (CANVASS). His research interests include multifunctional antennas and superconfigurable systems, biologically inspired concepts for reconfigurable antennas and smart skins, tunable materials and systems, collaborative beamforming in adaptive wireless sensor networks and autonomous or unpiloted systems, and other enabling antenna technologies in orientation systems ranging from smartphones and tablets to sensors and UAS.