Prior to that, he was a Research Associate at the Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, from 2009-11. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, in 2008 and 2009 respectively, and the B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India, in 2004. His research interests are in computer vision, applied statistics, and machine learning with applications to human activity analysis, video summarization, and dynamic scene analysis. He was awarded the Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship in 2009. He was selected to participate in the Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop by IBM, New York, in 2008.