- 2000 Technology Achievement Award from HRL Laboratories
- Leading or co-principal investigator on various DARPA-funded projects including Next Generation Internet and Small Unit Operations
- NSF CAREER Award from ANI in 2003
- Best paper award in IEEE SECON 2010 and best paper finalists in ACM MobiCom 2007, IEEE SECON 2005, IEEE CNS 2014, ACM SenSys 2019, and IEEE SECON 2020
- Finalist for the Internet Defense Prize and winner of the GeekPwn Award at USENIX Security 2016
- Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS
Research Experience
- Research Staff Member/Scientist at HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, from 1998 to 2000
- Served on Technical Program Committees of numerous conferences including MOBIHOC, MOBICOM, and INFOCOM
- Technical Co-Chair for WOSBIS-99 (Workshop on Satellite Based Information Services)
- Registration Co-Chair for ACM Mobicom 2003
- Technical Area Co-Chair for the Track on QoS on Open Systems in RTAS 2004
- Poster Session Co-Chair for Mobihoc 2004
- TPC Vice-Chair for ACM MOBICOM 2007
- TPC Co-Chair for IEEE SECON 2008, IEEE ICNP 2009, and IEEE WoWMoM 2010
- Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- Currently serving as TPC Co-Chair for IEEE Infocom 2024
- Co-editor of the book: Ad Hoc Networks: Technologies and Protocols (Springer Verlag, New York) with Prasant Mohapatra of UC Davis
Education
- B.E. (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and M.Sc. (Hons.) Physics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, 1992
- M.ASc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 1994
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego, 1997, with a year spent at the Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University
- Ph.D. advisor: Professor Anthony Acampora
Background
Research areas include wireless systems and networks, multimedia systems, computer system and network security, and applications of machine learning to networking and security problems.