He has obtained his doctoral degree from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore in 2004. He has been a recipient of Humboldt fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), Germany FRS-FNRS fellowship from Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgium in and Post doctoral fellowship at INLN, University of Nicesophia, Antipolis, France. He received the JSPS invitation fellowship in 2015. He has over 35 journal publications and over 50 conference presentations at various international conferences. His primary research interest is in Fluid mechanics.