Muhammad Taqi Raza joined the University of Arizona’s information systems department in 2019, soon after earning his PhD in computer science from UCLA. His research interests broadly lie in the area of networked systems and security. His research contributes to better understanding of the state-of-the-art networked systems by challenging their operational efficacy and identifying unexplored aspects at their heterogeneity—providing simple and innovative solutions from system designs to their operations through verification. He is now an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.