His research interests lie in scalable and privacy-conscious resource management for large-scale Distributed and Cloud Computing systems. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing, IEEE CLOUD 2012 and a Best Paper Award nomination in the 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, IEEE/ACM CCGRID 2015. At Pitt, he teaches courses related to security and privacy and has recently developed a new course on Cloud Computing.