I am a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute located on the University of Chicago campus. From Fall 2008 to Fall 2011 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Information Theory and Applications Center (ITA) at UC San Diego, which is part of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2). Prior to that I was a graduate student in the Sensory Information Processing and Communication group under Michael Gastpar, which is part of the Wireless Foundations Center in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (note the plural) department at UC Berkeley. I did my undergrad at MIT, where I earned B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. A bullet-point biography is contained in my CV. Some more of my thoughts can be found on my blog.

I am broadly interested in statistical algorithms applied to problems in distributed systems, communications, and privacy and security. Some recent and representative publications from the larger list are below.