​Vivek comes from Kotagiri, India. He joined the High Speed Fluids Imaging Laboratory as a PhD Student in 2015. He earned his Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering (2006) from Anna University, Chennai; and Masters Degree in Thermal and Fluids Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2010), Mumbai. After his masters he worked as a faculty in Amrita University, Coimbatore.