He graduated with a Bachelor"s degree from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India and has a Doctor of Philosophy from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
He was well learn in chess, so he was also known as a chess master during his college years, beating ten people at the same time or one after another.
He is a Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine. He served as a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego. In each case he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual information systems laboratories
In 2005 he was named the first Bren Professor in Information and Computer Science for the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine.
He founded or co-founded multiple startup companies including Imageware, Virage, Praja, and Seraja. Companies currently under development include mChron and Stikco.
He worked on some of the early visual information retrieval systems He served as Chairman of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIG Multimedia.
He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers MultiMedia magazine and the Machine Vision and Applications journal.
He still serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), and the Society for Optics and Photonics Technology (International Society for Optical Engineering). He has published over 250 research papers in scientific journals and conferences.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
