I completed my Ph.D. at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and undergraduate studies at Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad, India. I work in the area of Multimedia and Vision, Image Processing and, Machine Learning. In particular, I am working on problems in fine-grained object recognition with applications to object re-identification and visual tracking, adversarial attacks, and cross modal recognition. I am a recipient of the Early Career Research Award, Department of Science and Technology. Our research group – Visual Conception Group maintains an active collaboration with leading institutes like NUS Singapore, QUT Australia, NII Japan, and UiT Norway.