He completed his Bachelor of engineering in Civil at Government College of Technology, Coimbatore.
He obtained his Master of Technology degree from IIT Kharagpur and obtained a PhD in hydrology and water resources from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (United States).
[1][2][3][4] Kulandaiswamy created an eponymous mathematical model for the rainfall-runoff relationship based on a general equation developed by him.
He has authored six volumes of poems and seven of prose essays which earned him the Thiruvalluvar Award by Tamil Nadu government in 1999.
He won the Sahitya Akademi Award (1988) for his book Vaazhum Valluvam.