He performed his pre-doctoral studies in Chemistry at Indian Institute of Science?Bangalore and doctoral studies in Biophysics with Prof. Ronald Raines at the University of Wisconsin?Madison, where he elucidated a new force that is akin to the hydrogen bond in its quantum mechanical origin and widespread prevalence. In 2011, he was appointed a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows and was hosted by Prof. Stuart Schreiber at the Broad Institute. There, he shifted his research focus to beta-cell chemical biology and was named a Career Awardee at the Scientific Interface by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. His independent laboratory develops chemical technologies and studies exceptional organisms that survive conditions considered pathological to humans.