Background

Academic

• PhD (Information Science) from University of North Carolina (UNC) Chapel Hill (May 2010)
• MS (Computer Science) from University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst (May 2006)
• MTech (Computer Technology) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras (January 2002)
• BE (Computer Engineering) from Dharamsinh Desai Institute of Technology (DDIT), Nadiad, Gujarat, India (May 2000)

Professional

• Professor, Information School, University of Washington. Since September 2022.
• Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). Since September 2022.
• Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE). Since September 2022.
• Visiting Researcher, Amazon. January 2026-ongoing.
• Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research. July-September 2024.
• Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research. July-September 2023.
• Visiting Professor, Getty Images. June-December 2021.
• Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research AI. April-August 2020.
• Associate Professor, Information School, University of Washington. August 2019-August 2022.
• Adjunct Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE). March 2020-August 2022.
• Adjunct Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE). March 2020-August 2022.
• Amazon Scholar, Amazon. May-December 2019.
• Visiting Research Scientist, Spotify. May 2018-January 2019.
• Consultant, United Nations Data Analytics. Since Sept. 2016.
• Consultant, Brainly. 2016-2017.
• Associate Professor, School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University. July 2016-June 2019.
• Assistant Professor, School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University. July 2010-June 2016.
• Affiliate member of graduate faculty, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University. Since 2013.
• Affiliate faculty of Rutgers Climate Institute, Rutgers University. 2016-2019.
• Scientific Advisor. Texifter - a startup for developing tools and support for extracting and analyzing information from online sources. Springfield, MA. Sept. 2010-Aug. 2012.
• Director of Web Technologies, Texifter - a startup for developing tools and support for extracting and analyzing information from online sources. Springfield, MA. Sept. 2009- Aug. 2010.
• Summer intern at Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Lab (FXPAL) at California. Work on TRECVid as well as Collaborative Information Retrieval. Palo Alto, CA. 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.