Before joining IIM Visakhapatnam, he worked as Assistant Professor at IIM Jammu. He holds a PhD degree from IIT Kharagpur, M.Tech in Design & Manufacturing from NIT Silchar and a B.Tech in Production Engineering from NIT Agartala. He worked earlier as Assistant Professor with ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad and TAPMI, Manipal. His research interests lie in the areas of supply chain risk modelling, quantitative risk assessment, supply chain optimization, and decision-making under risk and uncertainty.