He received his M.S. degree in Computer and Information Science from SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome in 1995 and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Binghamton University in 2003. He also received a graduate degree in Systems Engineering from Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics in 1996. His research interests are in the areas of Computer Architecture with emphasis on power-aware and secure architectures and parallel discrete event simulations. His group designs energy-efficient, high-performance, complexity-effective, scalable, and reliable microprocessors and memory systems.