He received his B.Sc degree in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Kharagpur in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University in 2004. Prior to joining FSU as an Assistant Professor in 2004, he was a visiting scientist at MPI-Saarbruecken, Germany. Piyush is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award, the FSU Innovator Award, NSF ICorps Award, Fulbright Award, and the FSU Developing Scholar Award. He is a lifetime-senior member of the ACM and the CEO of CompGeom Inc.