He received a PhD from theTheoretical Statistics & Mathematics Unit at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata, India in 2002. He has postdoctoral experience from Lund University,Sweden; Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kolkata, India; and University of Ottawa, Canada. Prior to joining IISER Pune in 2009, he worked as Assistant Professor at IIT Guwahati and IIT Kharagpur.