Harish joined the faculty of University of Oxford in January 2013. Just prior to joining Oxford, he was a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at the University of Exeter. He was also at IBM Research (Zurich) (2006-2009) and at Yale University (2009-2010). An avid cricket and outdoors fan, he does research on nanomechanical devices, data storage and nanomanufacturing in his spare time. He also served as the Founding Director and Chief Scientific Officer of Bodle Technologies Limited.