He received a PhD degree from the Computer Sciences Department of Purdue University in May 2000, an MSc degree from the Computer Sciences department of Purdue University in 1999 and BSc. Computer Engineering with Honors from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca , Romania in 1993. He received a fellowship from the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for the 1994-95 academic year. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of the ACM, AAAI and the Upsilon Pi Epsilon honorary society. His research interests include cognitive science, autonomous agents, grid computing and wireless networking.