His research in computer vision and machine learning focuses on object recognition and video understanding. Before joining UC Davis in 2014, he spent one year as a post-doc at UC Berkeley and one year as a post-doc at Carnegie Mellon University, both under the supervision of Alyosha Efros. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012 under the supervision of Kristen Grauman. He is a recipient of the Hellman Fellowship (2017), Army Research Office Young Investigator Award (2017), NSF CAREER Award (2018), and AWS ML Research Award (2018).