[4] After undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1986, he received his PhD in 1991 from the University of California, Berkeley, with a thesis entitled Congestion Control in Computer Networks.

[5] He then joined the research staff at Bell Labs, where he also had visiting faculty positions at IIT Delhi and Columbia University.

[5] In 1996 he became an associate professor at Cornell University;[5] he then left academia in 1999 to co-found Ensim Corporation.

[7] He is the inventor, along with his students at the University of Waterloo, of KioskNet, a system for providing internet access in impoverished countries.

[9] At the University of Cambridge, Professor Keshav continues to work on research and teach in areas related to sustainable energy.