He was a Research Scientist at the University of Maryland from 1993 to 2018 where he was a member of UMIACS and the Director of the Laboratory for Language and Media Processing (LAMP).

[6] In 2019, he was appointed as the SUNY representative of the State of New York Governors Commission on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation.

In 2016, he received the Results Matter award presented to a program manager by the Director of DARPA for successful program development, implementation, and transition that exemplifies the DARPA mission of preventing strategic surprise.

From 2011 to 2013, he was awarded a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, at the University of Salford, Manchester UK, from the Royal Academy of Engineering for work on practical systems for mass-digitization using cloud computing.

In 2002, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Technology Sciences from the University of Oulu for contributions to digital media processing and document analysis research.