Fr. (Dr.) Joseph Mathew completed his Bachelor of Philosophy in 2002. In the same year, he began his Bachelor of Engineering studies in the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation at Sathyabama Deemed to be University, Chennai. In 2007, he pursued Theological studies at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram.

In 2010, he joined Rajagiri School of Engineering College as a lecturer in the Department of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation. Concurrently, he completed his M.E in Embedded System Technologies from Anna University, Chennai. He earned his doctoral degree from the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. His doctoral thesis, titled "Non-stationary Analysis of EEG Measurements for the Detection of Seizure Types and Localization of Epileptic Brain Tissues," highlights his focus on biomedical engineering.

He has significantly contributed to the academic community by attending numerous international conferences, publishing many papers in international journals, authoring a book chapter, and presenting research findings globally. Notably, he published a paper in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, titled "Variational Mode Decomposition Based Moment Fusion for the Accurate Detection of Seizure Types from Scalp EEG Measurements."

He is associated with IEEE membership and the Instrumentation Society of India (ISOI). His research interests include biomedical signal processing, instrumentation, and machine learning.