Before that, he worked as a senior principal research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL) since 2008. He received a Marie Curie VisionTrain scholarship from the European Union to pursue his doctoral studies in computer science and applied mathematics at INRIA Rhone-Alpes (France) under the guidance of Dr. Peter Sturm. His Ph.D. thesis on generic imaging models received INPG best thesis prize and AFRIF Thesis Prize (honorable mention) from the French Association for Pattern Recognition. His other notable awards include R&D 100 and RSS best paper runner-up. His research interests are in computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and autonomous driving.