Received Ph.D. in 1979 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in theoretical condensed matter physics. Currently he is a Visiting Professor at International School of Photonics. Areas of interest are, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, chaos and synchronization of chaos in laser systems. He is a life member Indian Physics Association, life member of Photonics Society of India and life member of Indian Complex System Society. He was the former director of International School of Photonics. He is a visiting professor to the Department of Physics, Central University of Hyderabad, India.