Vyas Sekar is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at Carnegie Mellon
University, where he is part of CyLab. His research interests lie at the
intersection of networking, security, and systems. He received his Ph.D. from
the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. He
earned his bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal. His work has been
recognized with the NSF CAREER award, the ACM SIGCOMM Rising Star Award, the 
 NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Award,  the CSAW Applied Security
Research Prize, and multiple best paper awards (ACM SIGCOMM, ACM CoNext, and  ACM Multimedia).