He received his B. Tech. at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2000, and his M.S. in Aeronautics and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in 2007. He spent a year as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, supported by a Supercomputing Institute Research Scholarship, and moved to Carnegie Mellon in 2008. His research interests are in the area of multiscale methods, particularly with electromagnetic forces and in settings that are away from equilibrium. His work on ferroelectrics was recognized by the Acta Materialia Student Paper Award for 2008.