Amrik Sen grew up in a small town near Calcutta, India. He obtained his secondary education diplomas from Montfort School and subsequently from St. Paul's School in 2002.
In 2006, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Silchar (NIT Silchar). Before commencing his post baccalaureate studies, he worked at the Medical Intelligence and Language Engineering (MILE) laboratory at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. There he worked on pattern recognition and machine learning algorithms for printed text and online character recognition.
He then obtained a master's degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado, Boulder in December 2009. Subsequently, while pursuing his doctoral research at the department of Applied Mathematics in CU Boulder, he also holds a graduate research student position at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). His primary research is in studying fundamental aspects of atmospheric turbulence. He is both a theoretician and a computational scientist.