Previously, he was a research scientist in the CAVE lab at Columbia University. He received a B.Tech. in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2003, an M.S. from Stony Brook University in 2005 and a Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. His research interests are in computer vision and computational imaging. His focus is on designing computational cameras that enable computer vision systems to perform robustly in demanding real-world scenarios, as well as capture novel kinds of information about the physical world. Details can be found at http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~mohitg/.