Saurabh is from the island city-state of Singapore, where constraints of landmass necessitate always thinking about efficiency and sustainability. He did his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley where he did research on electrochemical reduction of CO2 for sustainable production of chemicals. After undergrad, he moved into biology and biomanufacturing, conducting computational fluid dynamics studies to study scaling up of bioprocesses into industrial scale reactors. Being increasingly convinced about the vast capability of biology and becoming aware of the many challenges that still restrict its widespread adoption in manufacturing, he went on to do his PhD at Princeton University under the advisement of Dr. Jose Avalos and Dr. Yannis Kevrekidis. At Princeton, he sought to bring an engineering perspective into biology: looking to use physics-informed machine learning to model biological processes, and using these models to optimize and control production of chemicals using microbes in bioreactors.