I grew up in a small village in the state of Odisha in eastern India. While in high school, I got a chance to read A Brief History of Time and decided to study physics. While in college, I got my first opportunity to do research under the auspices of the Young Science Fellowship Programme for state toppers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). After getting the B.Sc. degree in Physics from BJB College (with distinction and the best graduate award) in 2004, I came back to IISc under the Integrated PhD programme in Physical Sciences. I worked with Prof. Rohini Godbole for my Master's thesis on the CP properties of the Higgs boson, which resulted in my first research publication (in Physical Review Letters). After getting the M.S. degree in 2007, I joined the graduate program in Physics at University of Maryland, College Park. There I worked with Prof. Rabi Mohapatra on low-scale neutrino mass generation in SO(10) supersymmetric grand-unified theory for my Ph.D. thesis. After getting my Ph.D. in 2012, I moved to the United Kingdom to join the group of Prof. Apostolos Pilaftsis at the University of Manchester as one of the inaugural STFC Lancaster-Manchester-Sheffield Consortium for Fundamental Physics Postdoctoral Fellows. Then I went to Germany in 2015, where after a brief stint in the group of Prof. Alejandro Ibarra at the Technical University of Munich as a TUM University Foundation Fellow, I was at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, as a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Dr. Werner Rodejohann. I moved back to the US in Fall 2016 as a faculty member in the the Physics at Washington University in St. Louis, where I have been ever since.