Professional Background

Background
  • PhD (Information & Library Science) from UNC Chapel Hill (September 2006 to May 2010)
  • MS (Computer Science) from UMass Amherst (September 2003 to May 2006)
  • Research Assistant at IIT Bombay (March 2002 to July 2003)
  • MTech (Computer Science) from IIT Madras (July 2000 to January 2002)
  • BE (Computer Engineering) from DDIT, Nadiad, Gujarat (November 1996 to May 2000)
Professional
  • ACM Member
  • ASIST Member
  • Summer intern at FXPAL, California (Summer 2007)
  • Visiting research fellow at National Institute of Informatics (NII) at Tokyo, Japan (Summer 2006).
  • Summer intern at Honda Research Institute at Mountain View, California (Summer 2004). Patent titled Building Plans For Household Tasks From Distributed Knowledge issued on May 6, 2008 (U.S. Patent Application No.: 11/296,020).
  • Microsoft Certified Professional (1999)
  • Chairman of IEEE Student Branch at Nadiad, Gujarat (1998-1999)