• Ph.D.(Finance), Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), IIT Kharagpur 
• M.Phil.(Equity Derivatives), Dept of Economics, University of Hyderabad, Central University  
• M.A.(Quantitative Economics), Dept of Economics, University of Hyderabad, Central University

Before pursuing a full-time PhD, he joined as an ‘Academic Associate' (Teaching & Research) in Finance Area at Indian School of Business (ISB)-Hyderabad where he had worked with top U.S. business school professors (UCLA, Wharton, ISB etc.). Before joining XIMB, he worked for two months as 'Research Economist' at IGIDR-Mumbai.