He received his PhD in 2016 from the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Prior to that he received a Master's degree in Quantitative and Computational Finance (QCF) at Gerogia Tech and a Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics from Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay (IIT-Bombay). He also has 2 years of work experience in the financial industry working with Bank of America in their Quantitative Finance group dealing with global structured products.