I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
I received my PhD in computer science from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2009, where I was a member ofthe Distributed Systems Lab. My PhD advisor was Professor Amr El Abbadi. From 2009 and 2011, I was a postdoc with Professor Bassam Bamieh at the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation at UCSB, and from 2011 to 2013, I was a postdoc with Professor Idit Keidar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion.
My research interests are in distributed algorithms, cooperative control, edge and cloud computing, and the Internet of Things