During his primary years of education, up to 3rd standard, he went to St. Mary's Home Matriculation School in Kothagiri, Tamil Nadu, India.

From 6th to 12th standard, he studied at Infant Jesus Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Manali New Town, Chennai, India.

[5] In 2004, he joined the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of British Columbia to pursue his doctoral studies.

In 2010, he started his academic career at the National University of Singapore (NUS) as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering specializing in gas hydrates technology.

Currently, he serves as an Executive Editor in Energy & Fuels journal published by American Chemical Society.

[13] In 2018, Clarivate Analytics named him as one of the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds[14] and Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering.

[37] Linga and his group's finding that inter-particle pore space is a key property to enhance the kinetics of hydrate formation enabled them to test, validate and report very cheap materials (sand, polyurethane foam) as a porous medium for the HBGS process with enhanced kinetics.

[38][39] On the fundamental level, their group evaluated the performance of a number of promoters for HBGS process including tetrahydrofuran, cyclopentane, and many semi-clathrate formers.

[46] Hence, Linga and his group embarked on developing the SNG technology as proof-of-concept and demonstrated its viability for a large scale stable stationary storage.

[48] One such breakthrough work introduces 1,3-Dioxolane (DIOX) as a dual functional promoter for sII hydrate formation for SNG technology.

[49][50] Linga has published more than 25 journal papers, secured 1 patent and co-founded a one spin-off company (NewGen Gas Pte Ltd) on the SNG technology.