[1] He is fluent in English, German, and Bengali and has reading proficiency in Sanskrit, Pāli, and French.

He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany from 2006–2007, where he conducted doctoral research on German aesthetics.

[7][8] Medhananda was the Associate Professor and Head of the Program in Philosophy from 2010 to 2021, at the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, in Belur Math, West Bengal.

He is currently serving as Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Hollywood.

He is researching and writing on the global philosophy of religion, epistemology of mystical experience, Indian scriptural hermeneutics, cosmopsychism, and Vedantic philosophical traditions, with special focus on the philosophies of Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, and Sri Aurobindo.