I'm an assistant professor in the Dept. of Library & Information Science (LIS) within the School of Communication & Information (SC&I) at Rutgers University. My research interests include studies of interactive information retrieval/seeking, especially in the context of online social networks and collaborations, contextual information mining, and applications of social media services for exploring critical socio-political issues. I am also interested in various theoretical and practical aspects of information as thing, and online information propagation.

At SC&I, I run a research group on Information Seeking and Behavior, as well as special interest groups on Collaborative Information Seeking and Social Information Seeking. I also belong to Social Media group, and SALTS, the Laboratory for the Study of Applied Language Technology and Society at Rutgers.

I received my PhD from the School of Information & Library Science (SILS) at UNC Chapel Hill. My dissertation, titled "A Framework to Support User-Centric Collaborative Information Seeking", was done under the supervision of Gary Marchionini. I hold an MTech, Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Madras, India and an MS, Computer Science from UMass Amherst. My detailed Curriculum Vitae can be found here .

I'm a competitive ballroom dancer and teacher, and an avid traveler. My wife Lori, our daughter Sophie, and I live in Somerset, NJ with our two dogs and two guinea pigs!