He received a B.E. degree in telecommunications engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, India in 2005, an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree, both in electrical engineering, from Arizona State University in 2007 and 2010, respectively. His research area is signal processing and communications, and he is specifically working on wireless communications and sensor networks. He is a member of MENSA and the Eta Kappa Nu honor society.