Prior to IIT Kanpur he was a Research Scientist in the Automated Driving group of Ford motor company in Dearborn, USA; where he worked on the autonomous vehicle research project. His research focus is on visual perception for mobile robotics using tools from computer vision, machine learning and information theory. He did his B­Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2006. Before joining University of Michigan for the PhD he worked in the vision group of Kritikal Solutions Pvt Ltd. (KSPL), a student based startup of IIT Delhi in India. In KSPL he worked on various commercial computer vision and image processing related projects.