As an executive producer on SyFy’s The Expanse, Naren Shankar helps to steer the spaceship Rocinante through the asteroid belt and beyond, a sci-fi journey that began, for him, in real laboratories. He’s been writing TV for nearly three decades — he began on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1992 — but before that, he was studying at Cornell University in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics.

Older article but still interesting..