His areas of research include wearable computing, low-power systems, electronic textiles, and pervasive computing. He received his BS in electrical engineering with a minor in VLSI Systems Engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1992 and his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999. In 2006 he received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his work on electronic textiles and wearable computing.