I am a PhD candidate at the College of Computing and Digital Media, DePaul University, Chicago, IL.   My area of concentration is Multimedia Communications over the Internet.  I have completed my thesis defense and am awaiting my degree. I am a member of Multimedia and Security Networking Research Laboratory, Depaul University CDM.  I am an adjunct faculty at DePaul for last six years and at Loyola University, Chicago, for past two years.

Professionally, I have over fourteen years of experience in system architecture design, programming, performance tuning, database administration, system support and documentation across various platforms.    I have worked with Fortune 500 companies, and have taken part in the delivery of numerous highly visible projects and am thoroughly conversant with system life-cycles.  I have also co-authored and presented at various database Users' Conferences. 

I am a photographer too.  I have a diploma in professional photography from New York Institute of Photography.  My photographic passion is to express myself as an Indian and identify myself with immigrants of color.  I have studied photography at Columbia College, Chicago.  

And I love to dance salsa in my copious free time!