R. K. Mallik, born on 15 November 1964 in Kolkata, the capital city of the Indian state of West Bengal to Radharaman Mallik and Tapati, earned a BTech in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1987 [REF].
Mallik is married to Sumona Dasgupta and the couple has one child, Upamanyu.