This scholar is a named Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at a leading university, with courtesy appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His research focuses on theoretical and computational multiscale methods for materials science, particularly bridging atomic and continuum scales to study functional behavior and non-equilibrium responses.