I received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with my work on a single-chip secure processor. Following the graduate school, I spent a year at PUFCO Inc., where I led the development of unclonable RFIDs and secure embedded processors. I joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell in 2007.

My research interests include computer systems in general with particular focus on computer architecture. I am interested in combining architectural techniques with low-level software to enhance various aspects of computing systems such as performance, security, and reliability. Currently, I am mainly working on secure embedded processors, reconfigurable multi-core architecture for security, and new programmable architecture (such as FPGAs) for simplified synthesis.