He earned a bachelor’s degree at the National Institute of Technology in Warangal, India, a master’s degree at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and a doctoral degree at Iowa State University. He worked on chemical mechanical planarization, a process in semi-conductor manufacturing, as a doctoral candidate research assistant. Other areas of expertise include predicting the life of hip implants through the use of fracture mechanics and non-linear dynamics of the thermo-mechanical aspects of machining.