He received his BA (summa cum laude) and PhD degree in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2007, respectively. In addition, Prof. Hay was with IBM Haifa Research Labs, Cisco Systems (San Jose, CA), the Electronic Department at Politecnico di Torino, and the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University, New York, NY. In 2010, Prof. Hay co-founded (with Prof. Brembler-Barr) the DEEPNESS lab, focusing on deep packet inspection in next generation network devices. His research interests are in computer networks - in particular, network algorithmics, packet classification, deep packet inspection, network survivability, and software-defined networking.