He rceived his Bachelor's and Master's degrees (with first class first) in Chemistry from Midnapore College and Kalyani University. He received his PhD degree in 1998 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he worked on DNA damaging agents and cationic liposome-mediated gene delivery under the supervision of Professor S. Bhattacharya. He joined the laboratory of Professor L. J. Reha-Krantz as an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada. He later moved to the laboratory of Professor Danny Reinberg to research on eukaryotic transcription and gene regulation in human at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)/Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). In 2005, he became an Assistant Professor in UTA.