Devarajan is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He is working with the Global Engineering and Research Laboratory on analysing the environmental and social sustainability of desalination and farm mechanisation systems in developing countries. Devarajan received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, USA, in December 2015. His PhD research focused on creating design methods and computer-support tools for integrating environmental sustainability into the product design process.