He is a recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, DoD Minerva Award (as co-PI), and the DARPA Service Chiefs' Fellowship. His research has been featured in the media including Popular Science, The Economist, andMIT Technology Review - where his work was included in their "Best of 2013" feature. He has also authored several books, including Elsevier's Introduction to Cyber-Warfare and the forthcoming Diffusion in Social Networks.