
Some of my best years were spent as a student at the Mother's International School in New Delhi, India. Unlike most schools in the US, we had a fixed curriculum for each year and all the students in the same grade took the same classes. Life as a high school student in India is a lot different from that here. Indian society was, and still is, very conservative and dating is almost unheard of, though that trend is changing now, at least in the big cities.
However, we also had a very fun class that always managed to get into trouble no matter what. You would often find our entire class out removing weeds from the fields. That was the punishment we were given for any and all mischiefs. I made many life long friends there that I have stayed in touch with. You can visit the home page of one of my friends from MIS, Pankaj Gupta , who is currently doing his PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University.

I completed my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from West Texas A&M University in Spring 1995. The university is located in Canyon, Texas; a small town about 20 miles south of Amarillo, right in the heart of Cowboy Country. My undergraduate years were fun filled and I learnt to appreciate the resources available to students in this country. The department was small and cohesive and the teaching was very personal. I would recommend any and all to select smaller sized departments, at least for an undergraduate course of study, because of the personalized teaching. Everybody knew me and I knew everybody.
My first experiences as a researcher came when I worked for Dr. Giddens in the CS department. I assisted her in determining invariance of operators and parameters of genetic algorithms across a range of problems. She was my mentor through my early college years and an excellent advisor.

I am currently working on my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Rochester. My research interests lie in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. During my first year, I worked on a Real-Time Frame Scheduler for the Solaris OS in collaboration with my advisor Chris Brown . Watch this page for a link to the report and package soon. This summer, I did research with the Bayes Net Learning Group here at Rochester. This group includes Chris Brown , Justinian Rosca , and myself. We explored different topics related to Bayes Net. My main interest is in the use of Bayesian Nets in learning Real-Time Vision Tasks for the mobile robots. I am currently working on the learning of mobile robot navigation strategies in uncertain and dynamic environments. For details on this and other mobile robot related research work at University of Rochester, go to the Mobile Robotics Group's home page.

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