He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, USA in 2011. Prior to that he obtained his M.Sc.(Engineering) in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and B.E.(ETCE) in Electronics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2006 and 2003 respectively. His research interests include non-linear signal processing methods with applications to speech and audio, audio visual signal processing and bio-medical signal processing.