Bio

I was born in Bihar, India, went to school in Darjeeling and Delhi, then received engineering degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and the University of California, Berkeley. For a few years, I was a research scientist with NASA, then briefly an assistant professor at IIT Delhi. I now work in Palo Alto, California, where I conduct research on space missions and satellite control. I am the artistic director of Naatak, a theater and film company near San Francisco.