• 2023 – Present - Dr TMA Pai Endowment Chair in Anurans, Acoustics and Anthropogenic Climate Change Lab, SMIADT
• 2016 – Present - Faculty and Researcher, SMIADT
• 2021 – 2023 - Academic Dean for the Undergraduate Professional Programme, SMIADT
• 2021 – 2023 - Programme Dean, Master programme in Environment and Society, SMIADT
• 2015 – 2016 - Chief Scientist, Gubbi Labs LLP (At present, an Adjunct Fellow) - environmental impact assessments, teaching statistics, remote sensing and GIS, agent based modelling and research methods in ecology
• 2009 – 2014- Research Scientist, Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc): Research Scientist - Center for infrastructure, Sustainable Transportation and Urban Planning (CiSTUP), IISc - bus stops in Bengaluru, impact assessments of railways, sea ports and infrastructure projects
• 2003 – 2009 Postdoc - Center for Ecological Sciences (CES), IISc - impact of land use and land cover changes on river basins; ecological modelling of Himalayan river basins and impact assessments of river development project
• Described three novel breeding behavior and 21 new species of anurans, 2 new species of fish, published first pictorial guide to frogs and toads of the Western Ghats
• Developed ‘Frog Find”, a first ever android app for identifying frogs and toads
• 1999 – 2002 - Junior and Senior Research Fellow (DST sponsored), Kuvempu University.

Interest Areas: amphibian ecology; encompassing the fields of systematics; bioacoustics; behavioral and landscape ecology; ecological complexity; biostatistics; remote sensing and gis applications; ecological niche modelling; citizen science initiatives and environmental impact assessments.

Current Practice at Srishti: Form and structure – soundscape ecology, Environmental exposure for Foundation, Complexity and living systems, Complexity and interdependence, Growth and Development, Rehearsing the future for Masters students.

• Citizen Science initiatives – frog walk at Bisile, Agumbe, Bannerghatta; Bird watching at Jakkur Lake; basics of GIS at Guwahati
• Bioacoustics and conservation at Students Conference on Conservation Science, IISc, Bangalore

Faculty, Researcher and Dr TMA Pai Endowment Chair

Awards and Recognition:

• Prajavani Achievers 2023 – In recognition of frog watch - citizen science initiative.  
• Awarded a partial-travel support to attend Bioacoustics Winter School, St.Etienne, France 2023
• Awarded a fellowship to attend Cornell Lab Sound Analysis Workshop, Ithaca, US 2018 
• Awarded a fellowship to attend Capra Course, 2018
• Awarded a travel grant to attend Conservation Asia, National University of Singapore, Singapore 2016
• Karnataka State Biodiversity Award, Govt. of Karnataka, India, 2016 for contribution to Amphibian Conservation. 
• JalaMitra, HSBC Water Programme on World water day, 2014.
• India Geospatial Excellence Award for Frog Find, the first free Android App on frogs in India, 2014.