He received his Ph.D. degree from the Pennsylvania State University in 2013. His research interests include cybersecurity, privacy, power grid security, mobile crowdsensing, big data, and cloud computing. In these areas, he has published around 40 papers in international journals and conferences including three Best Paper candidates for IEEE DSN 2017, IEEE PerCom 2013, and IEEE MASS 2011. He is the Associate Director for Research of the Cybersecurity Center for Secure, Evolvable Energy Delivery Systems (SEEDS) funded by DOE and DHS in 2015, and the Campus Lead for the University of Arkansas site. He is a member of the IEEE.