Prof. TVP Chowdry is associated with the Centre for Sustainable Technology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore as Project Scientist. His current interests are Entrepreneurship, start-ups, Bio-Energy, Sustainability, Environment protection, Waste Management, Wetlands etc. He is in the process of implementing a rural bio-energy led livelihoods project in a remote village sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

He is a graduate in Mechanical engineering, Postgraduate in Marketing Management, Industrial Design, & Applied Computer Science. He is an alumnus of Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Powai, Mumbai.

Prof. TVP. Chowdry has 30 years of work experience both in Industry and academics (research, consulting, guiding, teaching and program/project management), worked with following companies -HAL, CMC Ltd., Godrej & Boyce, HOPE Technologies, NIIT, dot com startups and other software development companies spanning the areas of Manufacturing, Start-ups, Software Development, Product Design Development, & Project Management.