He graduated with an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) in 2009 and a B.Tech. (Hons.) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur in 2004. He has won the Yahoo! Outstanding Dissertation award at UMass, a best-undergraduate-thesis award at IIT Kharagpur, and an Outstanding Researcher award at the University of Arkansas. He is a 2011 National Science Foundation CAREER awardee. His research interests span renewable-energy-driven systems, health-care systems, and mobile systems.