I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park. I work with Prof. Ashok Agrawala at the Maryland Information and Network Dymanics (MIND) Lab.

Fall 2011: Advanced to candidacy. Successfully completed my PhD thesis proposal.

Fall 2010: I am done with my core courses and the qualifying grade requirements. Presently, I am a Graduate Research Assistant with Prof. Agrawala at University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), working at the MIND Lab.

Fall 08 - Spring 10:  I worked as a Teaching Assistant with Dr. Ben Bederson, Dr. Jan Plane, Nelson Padua-Perez and Fawzi Emad for the courses CMSC131 and CMSC132 - Object Oriented Programming - I & II, at the Department of CS @ UMD.  My responsibilities included holding discussion sessions, handling classes, conducting and evaluating quizzes, projects, homeworks and exams.

June 2005 - July 2008: I worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Excellence in Computational Engineering, Amrita University, Coimbatore, India.

June 2005 - July 2008: I also taught, as a Lecturer, at the Department of Computer Science, Amrita University Amritapuri Campus, Kerala, India. Courses I taught include Data Structures, Operating Systems, Object Oriented Programming, Introduction to Programming (C Programming) etc.