Dr Shenoi is currently the Chair of IUGG’s Union Commission for Data and Information since 2014 and the national Vice-president of Vijnana Bharati since 2022. His research interests include dynamics of the waters around India, the role of the Indian Ocean on the monsoon, observational oceanography, ocean circulation, sea level variability and satellite oceanography. His recent research includes the discovery of intraseasonal barotropic oscillations in sea level in the tropical Indian Ocean. He is an elected Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (2007), National Academy of Sciences, India (2009), Indian Geophysical Union (2011), Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences (2014), and Telangana State Academy of Sciences (2015). Indian Geophysical Union awarded him with Dr H.N. Siddiquie Memorial Lecture Award (2011). AMET University, Chennai conferred him the Honorary Degree (Honoris causa) of Doctor of Science (2016), and Ministry of Earth Sciences awarded him the National Award for Ocean Science & Technology (2018).
He has served as Director of INCOIS, NIOT and as the Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO in 2019-2021, Co-chair of the International Indian Ocean Expedition-2 Steering Group (IIOE-2 - SG) during 2015- 2022, Chair of the Indian Ocean Global Ocean Observing System (IOGOOS) during 2017-2021, Member of the Executive Council of International Association for Physical Sciences of Ocean (IAPSO)/IUGG in 2011-2015 and in 2015-2019.
