Professional Chronology

Experiences

• Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, UK, from May 2023 to Present.

• Lecturer in Computer Science, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, UK, from Mar 2018 to Apr 2023.

• Researcher in the School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University London, UK, from Jun 2017 to Mar 2018.

• Scientist II at Visual Computing Department, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore, from Apr 2016 to Jun 2017.

• Scientist I at Visual Computing Department, I2R, A*STAR, Singapore, from May 2008 to Mar 2016.

• Teaching Assistant in EEE, NTU, Singapore, from Jul 2005 to May 2006.

• Software Engineer at Patni Computer Systems, Mumbai, India, Jun 2003 - Jul 2004. (I was working in SAP-BW for Gillette, USA).

• Summer Internship (May 2002-Jul 2002) at Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India. (I was with the Machine Intelligence Unit).

• Research Scholar in EE at IIT Roorkee during my B.Tech 2nd year (May 2001-Jul 2001).

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D in Electrical Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Jul 2004 to Oct 2008). My thesis title was: "Feature Regularization and Extraction in Eigenspace for Face Recognition", under the supervision of Prof. Xudong Jiang and Prof. Alex Kot.

• B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India (Jul 1999 - May 2003).

• Primary and Secondary education, class 10th std (ICSE during Apr 1997) at Julien Day School and class 12th std (ISC during Jun 1999) at St. James’ School, Calcutta, India, respectively.

Awards & Fellowships

• Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), UK, effective from 28th Jun 2023.

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK, effective from 15th Oct 2020.

• Received the "Award for Leading, Educating and Nurturing Talent (TALENT)" from A*STAR, Singapore in Apr 2018.

• Received the "Best Student Paper Award 2016: Honourable Mention Award" from the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA), member society of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) in Singapore with my student David Lee, 16th Feb 2017. [PREMIA News]

• Received "5-year Long Service Award", from I2R, A*STAR, in Apr 2014.

• "Excellent Team Player" in Visual Computing Department from I2R, A*STAR, consecutively for three years 2010 - 2012.

• Received the Best Biometrics Student Paper Award at the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 8-11 Dec 2008, Tampa, Florida, USA. Awarded by the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) technical committee. In the news: IAPR News Letter.

• Received the Award of Teaching Assistantship from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Aug 2007 to Oct 2007.

• Full Research Scholarship Award from NTU, Singapore (2004 – 2008).

• Recipient of Undergraduate Institute Merit Scholarships (1999 - 2003) from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.

• Undergraduate Research Award from May 2001 to Jul 2001 at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.