He is an alumni of IIT Guwahati and IIT Kharagpur at his Masters and Doctorate level respectively. He has post doctoral experience at Robotics Research Center of at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His current research interests are smart materials based actuators and energy harvesting systems and modeling and analysis of micromachining processes for difficult to machine materials and smart materials. He has been awarded national and international research projects on micromachining and smart materials of total project value of more than rupees one crore, so far. He has collaborated with eminent researchers from Canada, UK, Germany, Hungary, Russia and Singapore through various exchange programmes and joint projects. His research has resulted in more than 70 publications and 2 patents.