He graduated from Stanford University and then received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and a M.D. degree from the University of California, San Diego. After his neurology residency at UCSF, he completed a four-year postdoctoral fellowship in neural engineering in the Carmena Laboratory in the Department of EECS at UC Berkeley. His past awards include a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in Medicine, a Career Development Award (CDA) from the Veterans Health Affairs, and the Presidential Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The Ganguly laboratory conducts both basic and clinical research with the aim of translating neuroprosthetics to those with motor paralysis.