His research interests are broadly in Multimedia and Signal Processing, with specific applications in coding, retrieval, and immersive systems. He obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. During his PhD, he worked as a Researcher in Fraunhofer HHI, Berlin, from 2008-2013. Between 2011-2012, he was a Visiting Researcher at Stanford. He obtained his M.S. from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and his B.E. from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India. He was awarded the IEEE Communications Society MMTC Best Journal Paper award in 2013, and was a finalist for the IEEE ICIP Best Student Paper award in 2010 and 2012.