He received his B. Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1984, an M.S. in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995. His research interests are primarily in distributed systems, operating systems, networking, and pervasive computing. Dr. Pandey is a member of ACM and a member of IEEE-CS.