My research interests span a wide number of areas. I am an experimental fluid mechanician at one hand and a physical computer scientist at the other. I work on numerous problems at the interface of fluid mechanics, large-scale chemistry/biology, computer science and social technology.

More specifically, I am working on  new platform technologies for large-scale chemistry/biology, which promise to change the way we explore, manipulate, analyze and synthesize materials/chemicals. As manipulating packets of information led us to the information technology revolution, I am exploring what happens when you manipulate not just information but packets of materials at the same time. This has led to a new universal logic family "Bubble logic" where tiny nanoliter bubbles/drops are shutteled around in a chip to perform both computation and materials processing. This new paradigm merges chemistry with computation.

Amongst other things, I also work on numerous problems in interfacial fluid dynamics, microfluidics, bio-robotics and social technologies.

Currently I am finishing up my Phd. at MIT. Before that, I got my undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kanpur, India (1998-2002). After graduating from a CS department, I realized I don't really like to sit in front of the computer very much, so I ventured into traversing this artificial divide between computer science and physical sciences.