Resume

Education

Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2007 - 2012

Indian Institute of Technology Madras B.Tech in Electrical Engineering 2003 - 2007


Professional Experience

Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University 2023 - Present

Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University 2016 - 2023

Research Staff Carnegie Mellon University 2015 - 2016

Postdoctoral Fellow Carnegie Mellon University 2013 - 2015


Awards & Honors

  • 2024 — IEEE-CCF Cloud Computing Best Paper Award
  • 2024 — Editor Highlight, Nature Communications
  • 2023 — Best Paper Award Finalist, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • 2023 — Outstanding Certification Finalist, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
  • 2023 — Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Biometrics Council Transactions on Biometric Behavior and Identity Science (TBIOM)
  • 2022 — Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)
  • 2022 — Student Best Paper Award, ASME Conf. on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS)
  • 2021 — Facebook Research Award
  • 2020 — Top Reviewer Certificate, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
  • 2020 — Outstanding Reviewer, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  • 2019 — Best Paper Award (EML Track), Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
  • 2018 — Best Student Paper Award, Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
  • 2013 — Best Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS)