His research interests lie broadly in the areas of computer vision, signal processing, and image and video acquisition. Aswin received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2003 and MSc and PhD degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2007 and 2009, respectively. He was awarded the Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship by the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland in 2009. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the DSP group in Rice University, prior to joining Carnegie Mellon. 2013 © CMU Electrical & Computer Engineering