Education:
- Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA (2002)
- M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA (1998)
- B.Tech., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India (1996)
Positions Held:
- 2010 – present: Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, USA.
- 2005 – 2010: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, USA.
- 2002 – 2004: Associate Specialist Researcher, Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), University of California, Berkeley, USA. (Supervisor: Prof. Kannan Ramchandran).
- Summer 2000: Intern, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.
- 1996 – 2002: Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA.
Honors and Awards:
- 2010 AVSS Best Paper Award for paper co-authored with Kai Guo and Janusz Konrad entitled “Action recognition using sparse representation on covariance manifolds of optical flow” (2010 IEEE Int. Conf. Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance, Aug. 2010).
- 2010 ICPR Winner of Aerial View Activity Classification Challenge for work co-authored with Kai Guo and Janusz Konrad entitled “Action recognition in video by sparse representation on covariance manifolds of silhouette tunnels” (2010 Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition, Semantic Description of Human Activities Contest, Aug. 2010).
- 2005 US National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- 2007 – 2008 Dean’s Research Catalyst Award, College of Engineering, Boston University.
- 2008 – 2009 First Prize, Entrepreneur Design Contest, College of Engineering, Boston University.
- IEEE Senior Member (since 2007)
- 2000–2001 Frederic T. and Edith F. Mavis Memorial Fund Scholarship Award, College of Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign.
- Invited Member of Phi Kappa Phi (1997 – 1998)
- 1996 J. N. Tata Endowment Scholarship, India
- 1996 K. C. Mahindra Scholarship, India
- 1996 Phirozeshah Godrej Award, India
Professional Responsibilites:
- Web Chair: 2013 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS)
- Elected Member: IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee (2013-2015)
- Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2012, 2013)
- Co-organizer: Special session on Challenges in High-Dimensional Learning and Inference: Fundamental Limits and Algorithms, in the IEEE International Statistical Signal Processing (SSP) Workshop, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 5-8 August, 2012. Co-organizers: W. C. Karl and V. Saligrama (Boston University).
- Chair of Local Arrangements: 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
- Co-organizer: IEEE International Workshop on Change Detection, in conjunction with the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Providence, RI, 16-21 June, 2012. Co-organizers: N. Goyette and P-M. Jodoin (University of Sherbrooke, Canada), F. Porikli (MERL), and J. Konrad (Boston University).
- Area Chair: Image and Video Mid-Level Analysis, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
- Chair of Local Arrangements: 2010 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS)
- Special-Session Organizer and Chair: Network Computation, 2010 Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop
- Elected Member: IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP) Technical Committee (2009-2012)
- Moderator, Panelist, and Report-author: Breakout-session on Distributed Information Sensing, Processing, and Communication, US National Science Foundation Workshop: Future Directions in Systems Research for Networked Sensing, Boston University, Boston, MA, 25-26 May, 2006
- Chair of Exhibits and Demonstrations: 2004 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)
- Co-organizer: Berkeley-Fuse 2003 - a mini-workshop on the fundamentals of sensorwebs (environment sensing and large-scale sensor networks) aimed at bringing together researchers from the signal processing, radar, communications, control, and networking communities working on various theoretical aspects of sensing and sensor networks.
- Member, Technical Program Committees: IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP, 2012), IEEE-ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS, 2009), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP, 2005 – present), IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP, 2006 – present), IEEE-ACM International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2004 – 2006)
- Reviewer: US National Science Foundation, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Data Compression Conference (DCC).
