He obtained his B.E. at The Cooper Union (1998), and both his M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2002) from Cornell University, all in Electrical Engineering. His research interests are in the design and performance analysis of protocols for wireless networks, particularly sensor networks. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2004, and held the Philip and Cayley MacDonald Early Career Endowed Chair at USC from 2005-2008. He has received best papers awards at IPSN 2004 and MSWiM 2006. He serves as an editor for several journals including the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks and will serve as TPC Chair for DCOSS 2009 and TPC Vice Chair for IEEE SECON 2009. He is the author of a book titled Networking Wireless Sensors, published by Cambridge University Press.