He was a member of technical staff at Bell Labs in Dublin, Ireland from 2014 to 2016. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Göttingen, Germany in 2014. He worked as a researcher at IBM Research in Beijing, China in 2010. His research interests span broadly optimization and control of systems and networks, with a recent focus on the problem domains of edge computing, cloud data center computing, and online social networking. His research has been published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, IPDPS, ICDCS, etc. He is the recipient of the Best Paper Award of IEEE LANMAN 2013.