Narendra N. Das was born in Bhilai, India. He received the B.E. degree in chemical engineering from the National Institute of Technology Raipur (formerly, Government Engineering College, Raipur), Raipur, India, and the master’s and the Ph.D. degrees in biological and agricultural engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2005 and 2008, respectively. In November 2020, he joined the Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, MI, USA, where he is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining MSU, he was a Research Scientist with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, for 12 years (2008–2020). In 2008, he joined JPL and conducted research in hydrology and microwave remote sensing, especially for soil moisture retrievals using the combination of radiometer and radar and the applications of soil moisture for weather, agriculture, and drought. Dr. Das is a Science Team Member of the Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) mission. He is a Principal Investigator (PI) of the Applied Science NASA SERVIR Program to implement Drought and Crop Forecast System for East Africa region and Lower Mekong Basin countries. He is a Science Team Member of the NASA ISRO SAR (NISAR) mission with the responsibility to produce very high-resolution global soil moisture data product. He is also a PI of NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program.