Brenton Walker received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He worked at the Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences in College Park, MD, and received his PhD in Mathematics from the University of Maryland in 2014. From 2014-2015 he was an ERCIM post doctoral fellow at SICS in Stockholm Sweden. From 2015-2016 he worked as a backend developer for product matching at AlaTest. Since 2016 he has been a post doctoral researcher at the Institut für Kommunikationstechnik at the Leibniz Universität Hannover.