He received his Ph.D. degree in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. His research interests include secure networked control systems, cooperative control of networked robots, distributed synchronization, and bilateral teleoperation. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions On Automatic Control and IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. He was previously a co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Telerobotics.