Previously he was a postdoctoral researcher at Neuromechanics and Biomimetics Lab (BDL), Tufts University where he worked on development of soft material robots capable of terrestrial locomotion. He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville and his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has research interests in the areas of soft robotics, bio-inspired robotics, non-linear controls, robot-assisted search and rescue, machine learning and artificial intelligence.