He has published in top-level journals and conferences of repute like Int’l Conf. in Data Mining (ICDM). He has received several awards during his tenure as a doctoral candidate, including several Best Paper Awards at conferences, doctoral fellowship award, Graduate Student Service Award and Shining Star Awards for teaching from Old Dominion University. He has worked for Tata Consultancy Services for clients like British Telecom, UK and Procter & Gamble, USA, before starting his doctoral program. His research interests include Applied Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Speech Emotion Recognition and Generative AI. He also has prior research work in Numerical Simulations of fluid flows in propulsion systems and has published for NASA. He is also a reviewer for several journals. He has conducted more than 150+ corporate trainings in AI/ML/Gen-AI to clients like Oracle, Walmart Tech and others. He also conducts training sessions for participants enrolled in the AI-ML DBA programs at Golden Gate University, San Francisco, USA. He has worked for several organizations in the past.