P Veeramuthuvel was born on 22 October 1976 in Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu, India. He attended the railway school in Villupuram and earned a diploma in mechanical engineering from Eluumalai Polytechnic College, Villupuram.

He attended Sri Sai Ram Engineering College in Chennai for his BTech degree in Mechanical Engineering and then NIT Trichy for his MTech degree.

He further on completed his PhD at IIT Madras from 2011 to 2015.