Before he joined IIT Gandhinagar, he was a research fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2010. He received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 2009. His research interests include active distribution grid, microgrid, load forecasting, and demand side energy management. He has developed the Power Systems and Smart Grid (PS&SG) research laboratory at IIT Gandhinagar. The PS&SG research group has published the research findings in scholarly research journals and peer-reviewed conferences.