Before that, he held postdoctoral positions in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He received Bachelors and Masters in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2008, and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M in 2014. His research interests are in stochastic systems, control, and optimization with application focus on large-scale cyberphysical systems.