I am a Research Scientist in the Machine Perception team at Google as of May 2016. Prior to that, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, where I was affiliated with the Computer Vision and the Sensing, Learning, Inference labs, and privileged to work with Profs. Bill Freeman and John Fisher.

I am broadly interested in Artificial Intelligence. Specifically my research lies at the intersection of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Optimization. My work is often guided by mathematical principles. I am also the admin of the facebook page on Nonconvex Optimization.

I graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a PhD in Computer Science, where I was fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Yi Ma. My dissertation is titled Optimization by Gaussian Smoothing with Application to Geometric Alignment.