A Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India (1982), he went on to get his Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1999.
A practising engineer, he has developed a microbubble gas liquid mixing system in association with the National University of Singapore with whom he shares IP rights. He is a keen speaker and has several technical publications.
A keen advocate of clean technologies, he is a life member of The Environmental Engineering Society of Singapore (EESS). He is an elected member of the management committee of the society having held the Treasurers post in the past.
He is a CAAS certified, Class A (Rotorcraft), UAPL Drone pilot.