He spent 2000-2002 as a faculty member at the University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Duke University in 2000. His research interests lie in the areas of multimedia systems. His dissertation research focused on quality aware image transcoding. Previously, he also worked on energy conservation for streaming mobile multimedia. His work was supported by Defense Intelligence Agency, HP, National Science Foundation and Yamacraw. More info: http://www.cse.nd.edu/~surendar