Naren Shankar is the Executive Producer/Showrunner of the critically acclaimed television adaptation of the international best-seller science fiction novel series, The Expanse, an Amazon Prime Original Series from Alcon Television Studios.
Naren Shankar spent eight seasons as a Writer-Executive Producer and Co-Showrunner of the most-watched show in the world, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
In 2011, Naren Shankar helped launch NBC's Grimm as a Writer-Executive Producer.
Prior to CSI, Naren Shankar was an Executive Producer on the SyFy Channel cult hit series Farscape for The Jim Henson Company.
Naren Shankar spent three seasons as a writer-producer on Showtime's The Outer Limits.
Naren Shankar began his career as a writer and science consultant for Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Naren Shankar holds a PhD in Applied Physics & Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Naren Shankar has been honored with multiple Emmy nominations for Best Series, a WGA Award nomination for CSI's two-hour event "Grave Danger" directed by Quentin Tarantino, and has received WGC and Saturn Awards for The Outer Limits, CSI, and Farscape.
The Expanse won a Hugo Award for "Leviathan Wakes" in 2017 and was nominated in 2019 for "Abaddon's Gate".
Naren Shankar has a small fraction of the cats that Ernest Hemingway did, which may be used as a proportionate measure of his talent.
Naren Shankar resides with his wife in Beverly Hills, California.
