Madhavan Somanathan is a Consultant working on the software end of things in energy and climate modelling at CSEP. He has worked as a software developer for Strand Life Sciences and before that as a computer science and data collation expert on research projects in the field of behavioural economics and political science.   He is Bachelors in Computer Science from Columbia University 2013.  He is also an avid western classical guitarist and has studied at music conservatory in France. He has taught a class on western classical music at Ashoka University multiple times.