Vinay is a Distinguished Chief Scientist and Head of Software Systems Research at Tata Research Development Design Centre of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). His research interests include digital twins, learning native software, model-driven software engineering, AI in software engineering, and enterprise modeling. His work in model-driven software engineering has led to a toolset that has been used to deliver several large business-critical systems over the past 25 years. Much of this work has found way into OMG standards, three of which Vinay contributed to in a leadership role. An alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Vinay is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering and also serves as Visiting Professor at Aston University Birmingham, Middlesex University London, and Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur.