Prior to this, Arya was an assistant professor at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and form Aug 2011 to Dec 2012, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Arya received his Ph.D. from University of Maryland, College Park, in 2011. Arya is a recipient of the 2014-15 NSF CAREER award and the 2010 IEEE ISIT Jack K. Wolf Student Paper Award. He is also a recipient of the Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship Award, 2011, at the University of Maryland. He spent the summers of 2008 and 2010 at the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, and IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, respectively. Arya's research interests include information theory, coding theory, and their applications to CS theory/learning.