He has been awarded the Faculty Fellowship Award by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in 2013, UM Provost Research award in 2011, as well as EARLY CAREER Research award from the University of Miami in 2012. His group's research projects have been funded by NSF, ONR, DOE/ARPA-E, and Fortinet Corporation. His current research focuses on Systems Security and Privacy, Intrusion Detection, Forensics, and Response, as well as Trustworthy Critical Cyber-Physical Power-Grid Infrastructures. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science, specifically, Intrusion Tolerance Solutions for the Power-Grid, from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2011.