He received the Dipl. Ing. (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) in 1995 and 1999, respectively. In 2007-08, he spent a Sabbatical Year at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). He received the ETH Medal for both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses and a CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2005. He served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks from 2005-08, as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2005-06, and as the Lead Guest Editor for an issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications on stochastic geometry and random graphs for wireless networks in 2009. Presently he is an Associate Editor the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.