His research specializes in machine learning, computer vision, and robotics, all with an emphasis on deep learning. Ray was a research scientist with Eastman Kodak Company where he worked on computational imaging algorithms and was awarded 31 U.S. patents with another 19 applications on file. He graduated from SUNY/Buffalo with a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He earned a M.S. in Image Science from RIT. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from RIT in 2013. Ray was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2010 and his Ph.D. research earned the 2014 Best RIT Doctoral Dissertation Award. Ray is a NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute Certified Instructor and University Ambassador, a passionate supporter of STEM education, and is active in IEEE and FIRST robotics organizations.