Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
• Electrical and Computer Engineering, December 1990

• M.S., North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
• Electrical and Computer Engineering, April 1986

• B.S., Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India
• Electrical Engineering, June 1984

Experience

• Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY
• T. C. Chang Endowed Chair Professor, July 2002 - Present
• Department Chair, July 2009 - June 2012
• Acting Department Chair, July 2000 – December 2000
• Professor, December 1996 - June 2002
• Associate Professor, January 1995 - November 1996
• Assistant Professor, January 1991 - December 1994

• Snap Inc., New York, NY
• Director, NYC Research, January 2018 - April 2024

• The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
• Graduate Research Assistant, July 1986 - December 1990

• Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama, Japan
• Visiting Research Scientist, April 1989 - August 1989

• Taylor Instruments, New Delhi, India
• Research Engineer, July 1984 - November 1984

Honors

• Okawa Prize
• Okawa Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, 2023

• Indian National Academy of Engineering
• New Delhi, India, 2022

• SPIE Luminary
• The International Society of Optics and Photonics, Bellingham, WA, 2021

• Funai Achievement Award
• Information Processing Society of Japan, Sendai, Japan, 2021

• Distinguished Alumnus Award
• Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India, 2021

• IEEE PAMI Distinguished Researcher Award
• IEEE Computer Society, Seoul, South Korea, 2019

• Hall of Fame
• North Carolina State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Raleigh, NC, 2016

• Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award
• Columbia Engineering Alumni Association, New York, NY, 2015

• National Academy of Inventors
• Tampa, FL, 2014

• Appreciation Honor for Contributions to Computational Imaging
• Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Cambridge, MA, 2011

• Alumni Achievement Award
• Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2009

• National Academy of Engineering
• Washington, DC, 2008

• Great Teacher Award
• Society of Columbia Graduates, New York, NY, 2006

• T. C. Chang Endowed Professorship
• Columbia University, New York, NY, 2002

• Keck Engineering Teaching Excellence Award
• W. M. Keck Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, 1995

• NTT Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award
• NTT Basic Research Laboratory, Japan, 1994

• Fellow of the Packard Foundation
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA1992

• National Young Investigator Award
• National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1991

Best Paper Awards

• Best Paper Award
• SIGGRAPH Asia, Tokyo, Japan, 2024

• Best Paper Award
• European Conference on Computer Visione, Milan, Italy, 2024

• Best Paper Award
• ACM Multimedia Conference, Nice, France, 2019

• Helmholtz Prize
• International Conference on Computer Vision, Seoul, South Korea, 2019

• Best Paper Award
• User Interface Software and Technology, Quebec City, Canada, 2017

• Best Paper Award
• IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, Houston, TX, 2015

• Best Paper Award
• IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, Cambridge, MA, 2010

• Best Paper Award
• IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, Washington, D.C., 2004

• Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
• IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, Hilton Head, SC, 2000

• David Marr Prize
• International Conference on Computer Vision, Boston, MA, 1995

• Siemens Outstanding Paper Award
• IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference, Seattle, WA, 1994

• 20th Pattern Recognition Award
• Best Pattern Recognition Journal Paper Award, Jerusalem, Israel, 1994

• Best Industry Related Paper Award
• International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Jerusalem, Israel, 1994

• David Marr Prize
• International Conference on Computer Vision, Osaka, Japan, 1990