Arun earned a Master’s degree in the Technology and Policy Program at MIT in 2017. His advisors were Prof. Valerie Karplus and Dr. Niven Winchester. His work involved analyzing the energy policies of India through a computable general equilibrium modeling framework. Prior to MIT, he was working on environmental regulation reform projects in India with J-PAL South Asia. He also holds a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.