Dr. Walsh received his BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University under the supervision of Dr. C. Richard Johnson, Jr. in 2002, 2004, and 2006, respectively. After completing a short postdoc at the University of British Columbia with Vikram Krishnamurthy in the summer of 2006, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University, where he is currently an an assistant professor. He is a member of the IEEE, HKN, and TBP. His current research interests involve: (a) the development of a design theory for distributed composite adaptive systems, (b) the performance, convergence, and application of expectation propagation, a family of algorithms for distributed iterative decoding and estimation, and, most recently (c) models for permeation in biological ion channels.