in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, in 1982, where he received the President of India's Gold Medal for best undergraduate performance.
His projects focused on AI for computer games and virtual worlds, consumer health and wellness, and educational technologies.
Topics included knowledge-based machine learning, case-based reasoning, cognitive modeling, and natural language processing.
[13] His team created social computing technologies to augment human cognition in application areas including health and wellness.
[14] In June 2013, he was interviewed on Australian radio about the trends toward finding medical information on the Internet,[15] and was invited as a keynote speaker at the Amplify Festival.