Navaneeth Kamballur Kottayil earned an Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Alberta and an MTech in Image Processing and Embedded Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His research interests are high dynamic range imaging, the influence of content on image quality, perceptual quality analysis, deep learning, image processing and computer vision. He has over 20 peer reviewed publications and patents. Currently, he is a Lead ML developer at AltaML, and is involved in applied research projects in computer vision and machine learning.