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, translating Bengali poems to English, and origami. I also love to travel and spend time with my two children.

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