Brief Bio

Last Affiliation

Accelerated Discovery Lab
IBM Research (Almaden)

Joint Affiliation
NSF Center for Cellular Construction
University of California, San Francisco

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz
Electrical Engineering (PhD)
Thesis subject: Computer Vision
Advisor: Professor Peyman Milanfar (Google, UC Santa Cruz)

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Computer Science (M.Tech.)
Dissertation subject: Statistical Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Debasis Sengupta (Applied Statistics Unit)

National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India
Mechanical Engineering (B.E.)
Undergraduate research: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Advisor: Professor D K Pratihar (now at IIT Kharagpur)

Awards and Honors

Regents Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz (1st year of doctoral program)
Best student paper award in International Conference in Image Processing (ICIP), 2014
Graduate fellowship for the Masters program at Indian Statistical Institute from 2006 to 2008
Nominated for Best Thesis Award in Computer Science (2008), Indian Statistical Institute
Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (medical image analysis), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology