He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science with distinction from the University of Madras and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Texas A&M University. He was a joint postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is the recipient of the 2011 Wolfgang Gopel Award from the International Society for Olfaction and Chemical Sensing. His research interests include sensory and systems neuroscience, sensor-based machine olfaction, machine learning, biomedical intelligent systems, and dynamical systems.