Hiranmay was born and brought up in India. He did his PhD in the Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India under the guidance of Prof. Govardhan Reddy. Currently, he is a postdoctoral research scholar in Prof. Thirumalai's group at University of Texas at Austin. His research interests primarily lie in the area of computational biophysics especially in the field of structure and dynamics of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and folding of chromosome in cell.