He earned a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh, India, in 1975; an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada in 1979; and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor in Canada in 1984.
He previously served at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, from 1984 to 2018, holding various professorial positions. From 2018 to 2024, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas Permian Basin, where he also served as Electrical Engineering Department Coordinator and Interim Chair.
His research interests include quantum computing; parallel processing using FPGAs, multicore processors and GPUs; emerging architectures for radar signal processing; machine learning algorithms; and deep learning. His research has been funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the U.S. Air Force through a subcontract, NASA, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Education.
He was a Fulbright-Tampere University of Technology Scholar from 2014 to 2015 at the Tampere International Center for Signal Processing at Tampere University of Technology in Finland. He was also appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecture Program from 2014 to 2015.
From 2014 to 2018, he served as Chair of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems Applications Technical Committee. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.