 Shivakumar was later the associate director of the ISAC from November 2010 to June 2012 and director of the program from July 2012 to March 2015.As of 2019, he was serving as chairman of Karnataka Science and Technology Council.He died on 13 April 2019 at the age of 66 in Bangalore and was cremated at the Banashankari Crematorium.