Prior to joining Boston University in 2001, he was a Research Engineer at United Technologies Research Center. He received his Ph.D. from MIT and the B.Tech degree from IIT Madras. He is the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the NSF Career Award and the Outstanding Achievement Award from United Technologies. His team was a finalist in the Crossbow Sensor Network Challenge competition in 2005. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing since 2005. His research interests are in information and control, and distributed signal processing.