He is the T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering at Columbia University.[1] Nayar co-directs the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center and is the head of the Computer Vision Laboratory (CAVE),[2] which develops advanced imaging and computer vision systems.[3] Nayar also serves as a Director of Research at Snap Inc. He was elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2008 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 for his pioneering work on computational cameras and physics based computer vision.