Deva is an MIT graduate with a strong systems background. He has experience in a diverse set of areas from energy management to pervasive media to embedded networking technologies to distributed systems.

He recently co-founded DataGlen, a company focussed on collecting and curating IoT Data. He is acting as one of the General Chairs for ACM e-Energy 2015, a conference that aims to be the premier venue for researchers working in the broad areas of computing and communication for smart energy systems, and in energy-efficient computing and communication systems.

Until recently, he was leading the smarter energy research for IBM India and founded the group in December 2008 and led it until June 2014. Before that, he drove the pervasive media research for France Telecom in Boston from Jan 2006 to Nov 2008. around the same time, he had co-founded RadioSherpa, a company that developed a real-time visual program guide for the new HD Radios. He also co-founded the open cell phone project called tuxphone.