I am presently working as a Software Engineer in Analytics and Optimization group in IBM - Research, India since October, 2011. I received my Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree (First Class, Honors) in Computer Science and Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal in 2009. I was a graduate scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore from 2009 to 2011. My areas of interest include Data Mining, Machine Learning, Game Theory, Operational Research, Information Retrieval, and Algorithms. More specifically, I have worked on mechanism and auction design in Game Theory; text classification, feature selection and dimensionality reduction etc. in Data Mining. My recent work is in the area of Optimization using Constraint Programming.