He has led research and technical development for multiple engagements on computer vision, distributed AI, edge-robotics, and multimodal learning with significant product impact. He has over 15 years of experience in several prestigious industrial research labs and has led global teams across the world. He has published papers in many top tier conferences and journals and his papers have been highly cited (ACM Computing Surveys, ECCV, and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine). His work has also been profiled in leading technology media publications including Mashable, TechCrunch, and Wired as well as in leading news media venues (New York Times and Fortune). Dhiraj was a key member of the team that created the first ever real-time multi-modal AI highlights for international golf and tennis tournaments (Masters, Wimbledon, and US Open) in 2017. Dhiraj’s work also lead to the creation of the first ever AI driven movie trailer for a 20th Century Fox movie Morgan released in 2016. For the latter work his paper received the Best Brave New Ideas award at ACM Multimedia and also the prestigious IBM Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award. He's a recipient of IBM Corporate Award for Breakthrough Technical Accomplishment (IBM's top technical award) for his work on AI Highlights. Dhiraj has led multiple AI and computer vision research partnerships with MIT and UIUC and currently serves as the IBM lead for a joint IBM-UIUC project on robotics at the edge. Dhiraj actively participates in leading conference committees and has served as the Chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society Rochester chapter between 2011-2012. He was also a leading co-chair of the ​​Workshops on Multi-modal Video Analysis held in conjunction with ICCV 2019 and ECCV 2020.