“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
From the very humble beginnings in Hyderabad, India, I was fortunate to get some of the best education and experience from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and Georgia Tech. My learning continued for 16 years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and now for 10+ years at SABIC’s Technology and Innovation working with some of the best and brightest in the world within and outside the organization.
My career started in engineering, looking to control, improve, and create engineered devices in the world around us. Very soon, this path led me on my journey to information science – the realm of computational science, mathematics, chaos theory, machine learning, and algorithms. This journey across disciplines naturally led me to look at nature itself, not just as a mere subject of study, but as “nature” the ultimate engineer that has explored the vast phase space of possibilities over four billion years. Nature is an inspiration since it has achieved astonishing feats of energy and resource efficiency, sustainable replication, robust self-assembly, compact transfer of information, and biological intelligence critical for species survival; all without the siloed thinking about disciplines such as physics, or chemistry, or biology, or mathematics, or the concepts that we impose.