Dr Saurabh Bansal earned his PhD in Mathematics from IIT Guwahati, where his thesis received the Best Thesis Award. He completed his MSc at IIT Bombay and his BSc at the Central University of Rajasthan. He has also qualified GATE (AIR 91), CSIR-JRF (AIR 20), and IIT-JAM (AIR 27), and is an INSPIRE Scholar.

Before joining RGIPT, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, and earlier served as an Assistant Professor at UPES, Dehradun.

His research lies at the intersection of computational finance, scientific machine learning, and numerical methods. He has published 11 research papers in reputed international journals and conference proceedings.