Currently he is adjunct professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and honorary professor emeritus at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune.

[5] In 2002, he played a role[6] in exposing a series of instances of plagiarism by the Vice-Chancellor of Kumaon University in India.

Mukhi has a number of interests in addition to physics, notably Indian Classical Music on which he maintains a webpage [1], science popularisation which he carries out through seminars at schools and colleges as well as newspaper articles, and cinema, cooking and meditation.

During 2018-2020 he was lead vocalist of the progressive heavy metal band Let's Keep Thinking, based on the IISER Pune campus.

He was one of the organisers of Strings 2001 in Mumbai — a conference that attracted much publicity because of the participation of David Gross, Stephen Hawking and Edward Witten.