He is the recipient of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator (YIP) Award in 2011 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2009. Prior to joining Ohio State, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In 2005, he worked at the IBM Austin Research Laboratory, designing power control algorithms for high-density computer servers. From 1998 to 2001, he was a senior software engineer and then a project leader at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, China, developing distributed management systems for optical networks. He received his doctoral degree from Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include computer systems, computer architecture, data center power management, embedded and real-time systems, and cyber-physical systems.