He received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2001 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001-2003, and at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 2004-2005. He was a faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, 2006-2010, and also served as a co-founder and the president of Sentina Systems, Boston, MA, 2005-2010. Along with Prof. Guy-Bart Stan (Imperial College) and Prof. Karthik Raman (IIT Madras), he is a co-editor of the book System Theoretic Approaches to Systems and Synthetic Biology which will be published by Springer Verlag in May 2014.