Radha Poovendran is a professor and chair of the department of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, where he has been since 2000. His research areas are wireless security and cyber-physical systems security. He is a recipient of the NSA Rising Star Award (1999), NSF CAREER award (2001), ARO YIP (2002), ONR YIP (2004), PECASE (2005), Kavli Faculty Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (2007). He is a recipient of the UW EE Outstanding Teaching Award (2002) and Outstanding Research Award (2002).