I was born on August 2, 1982, in the city of Raipur in central India, but call Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) home and my early education was completed in the idyllic environs of Anushaktinagar. The years 1999-2003 were spent on the stimulating campus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where I received the Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering. Since Fall 2003, I am a graduate student in the CSE department of University of California, San Diego. My research interests lie in computer vision and machine learning. I am currently in the fourth year of my Ph.D. with Prof. David Kriegman as my advisor.