About Me

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science, at University College Dublin (UCD). I am also an Institute Member of UCD Earth Institute, and an SFI Funded Investigator with ADAPT SFI Research Centre, Dublin.

I lead the THE visIon and Analytics lab (THEIA) at UCD. Our research interests primarily lie in the area of computer vision, image processing, and remote sensing. Leveraging techniques from statistical machine learning and deep learning, we tackle interdisciplinary computational problems in diverse fields, including earth observations, digital multimedia, and affective computing.

I graduated with a B.Tech from National Institute of Technology Silchar, India summa cum laude in 2010. Post graduation, I worked with Ericsson India as a network engineer from 2010 to 2012. Then I went on to complete my Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore in 2017. From Aug-Dec 2015, I was a visiting Doctoral Assistant at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. From 2017 till 2019, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Trinity College Dublin. I was also an Associate Faculty at School of Computing, National College of Ireland, Dublin during 2018-2019.

Recent News

• (March 2025): The SOLARIS project — a PhD research project of my student Mayank Jain under my supervision — has been shortlisted for ‘Best Research Project’ at the 2025 Education Awards, in recognition of its impactful contributions to AI-driven solar energy forecasting and integration. [press] [Twitter] [LinkedIn]
• (February 2025): Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List: I have been included in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List 2024 (annual ranking), based on standardized citation metrics compiled from Scopus data.
• (January 2025): My PhD student, Jiantao Wu, successfully defended his thesis, “Bridging the Climate & Environmental Data Divide: A Knowledge Graph Approach”, on 30th January 2025. Huge thanks to his examiners: Boeing Endowed Professor Bo Fu from California State University Long Beach, who served as the external examiner; and Assoc Prof Gavin McArdle, who served as the internal examiner. Special thanks to Dr David Lillis for ably chairing the viva and overseeing proceedings. [tweet]
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