He is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, a Sloan Faculty Fellowship, and a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. He is the author of the new textbook Brain-Computer Interfacing: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and the co-editor of two volumes, Probabilistic Models of the Brain (MIT Press, 2002) and Bayesian Brain (MIT Press, 2007). With Adrienne Fairhall, he offered the first MOOC on computational neuroscience (about 50K registered students). His research spans the areas of computational neuroscience, AI, and brain-computer interfacing. His other interests include the 4000-year-old undeciphered Indus script (a topic on which he has given a TED talk) and Indian miniature painting.