Jayakumar graduated from IIT Bombay in 2006, with a silver medal in the dual-degree (B.Tech & M.Tech) program in Aerospace Engineering. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Prior to this, he was part of a Machine Learning startup that built recommender systems for some large FMCG companies. He has also worked in Investment Banking at various banks for 9 years.