In 2021 he became Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh[1] He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
He studied visual processes as well as artificial intelligence in the former Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems of Boston University, where he earned his Ph.D.[5] He worked for twenty-five years at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, principally on computer security.
He earned an MIT Excellence Award for "Bringing out the Best"[7] in his staff in 2015 and an MIT Lincoln Laboratory Best Paper[8] award in 2023 for his work developing a language for expressing adversary safety in cryptographic protocols.
[10] He was director of the Laboratory of Physical Science at the University of Maryland (2019–2020)[citation needed], where he contributed to several national strategy documents on computer architecture and quantum information science and engineering.
[12] He holds several additional leadership positions, including executive director of the Pittsburgh Quantum Initiative.