I was born in Hooghly in eastern India and grew up in Allahabad in northern India. I finished my Bachelor of Engineering from the West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata in 2005 and then spent the next three years as a software engineers in one of the largest software service providers in the country. During this time I stayed in Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. Then, my thirst for knowledge prevailed over good sense and I left my job in 2008 to become a Ph.D. student at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA. The seeds of my love for image processing and pattern recognition had been sown in my head when I had done a small project at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata back in 2005 and I decided I just had to work on that.

However, my love for images goes a bit beyond my experiments, as my love for writing does not stop at research papers. My father being an amateur photographer, I did not have to look far for a hobby. I bought my first digital camera in January 2006 and have been clicking away like crazy ever since. I'm strictly an amateur and take photos purely for the enjoyment I get out of it. From time to time, when my research computers are busy running programs, I indulge in a number of other activities like blogging, painting, drawing portraits of my friends and origami.

The above links point to some of the things that have distracted me from useful work over the years.