 Kulkarni is the brother of Sudha Murthy and brother-in-law of Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys.He has been the Jury Chair for the Infosys Prize for the discipline of Physical Sciences since 2009.Shrinivas Ramchandra Kulkarni was born on 4 October 1956 in the small town of Kurundwad in Maharashtra, into a Kannada speaking Deshastha Madhva Brahmin family.