Background
He was born in Bangalore on 9 August 1967.
He was born in Bangalore on 9 August 1967.
He studied in IIT Madras and Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.
He holds a position at the National Institute of Oceanography in Goa. He was awarded in 2011 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, the highest science award in India, in the Earth sciences category.