He received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) in 2006, and his Ph.D. from Rice University in 2012. From 2012 to 2015 he was a Shell-MIT postdoctoral associate in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT. He received the Ralph Budd Award for Best Engineering PhD Thesis in Rice University in April 2013, the Best Student Paper Award in SPARS 2009, and the Best Paper Award in ICML 2015. His research interests include signal processing, machine learning, and design and analysis of algorithms.