His research interests lie at the intersection of networking, security, and systems. He received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. He earned his bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal. His work has been recognized with the NSF CAREER award, the ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award, the NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Award, the CSAW Applied Security Research Prize, and multiple best paper awards (ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNext, and ACM Multimedia).