Prior to his current appointment, he was a Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science at University of Birmingham (UK), working on the EU Cognitive Systems (CoSy) project between August 2007 and October 2008. He received his Ph.D. (Aug 2007) in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr.Sridharan's research interests include machine learning, planning, computer vision and cognitive science, as applied to autonomous mobile robots. Furthermore, he is interested in designing learning and inference algorithms for big data domains characterized by a significant amount of uncertainty.