From 1999-early 2001, he was on leave from Berkeley as director of the Information Technology Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

He has served as chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley from January, 2001 through June 2004.

He has coauthored over 600 technical papers and 10 books, including Adaptive Control: Stability, Convergence and Robustness (with M. Bodson, Prentice Hall, 1989), A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation (with R. Murray and Z. Li, CRC Press, 1994), Nonlinear Systems: Analysis, Stability and Control (Springer-Verlag, 1999), An Invitation to 3D Vision: From Images to Models (Springer Verlag, 2003) (with Yi Ma, Stefano Soatto, and Jana Košecká), and Generalized Principal Component Analysis (Springer, 2016) (with René Vidal and Yi Ma).

(honoris causa) from Harvard in 1994, Fellow of the IEEE in 1994, the distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology in 1999, the David Marr prize for the best paper at the International Conference in Computer Vision in 1999, an honorary doctorate from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2007, and the C.L.

He is currently on the corporate board of HCL Technologies (India) and co-directs the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute.