He spent a year as a PostDoc at MIT following his PhD at Stanford University, before starting at Illinois in August 2014. He develops systems and algorithms for "human-in-the-loop" data analytics, synthesizing techniques from data mining, database systems, and human computation. He has received multiple dissertation awards (from SIGMOD, SIGKDD, and Stanford), an "Excellent" Lecturer award from Illinois, a Google Faculty award, the Key Scientific Challenges award from Yahoo!, four best-of-conference citations, and a Gold Medal from IIT Bombay. His research group is supported with funding from the Siebel Energy Institute, Toyota, Adobe, the NIH (2x), the NSF (3x), and Google.