He was a Beckman Fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, before joining RPI. He received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and his Ph.D. in Robotics from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award. His research interests are in robotic motion and manipulation planning, and in developing algorithms for applications in automation, microsystems, and bioinformatics.