I am currently a Research Fellow working with Prof. Rebecca Walwyn at the Leeds Institute for Clinical Trial Research, University of Leeds, UK. Before joining the University of Leeds, I completed my PhD in the Department of Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT Hyderabad), where I was jointly supervised by Dr. Satya Prakash Singh (IIT Kanpur) and Prof. Balasubramaniam Jayaram (IIT Hyderabad).

I work in fields related to the methodological and practical aspects of Design of Experiments (DoE). My research directions include the following.

1.   I am currently focused on designing and optimizing complex trials in health and social care research. In particular, I am working on the optimal design of complex practitioner-led trials involving more than one intervention interacting with the practitioners. Our aim is to incorporate classical DoE approaches, originally developed in agricultural research, into complex healthcare trial settings. 

2.  I am also interested in optimal designs for completely randomized trials, cluster randomized trials, multiple comparison problems, and ordered experiments. One of my key areas of work involves developing power efficient max–min designs for multiple comparison problems using novel game theoretic approaches. These designs perform significantly better than traditional ones under worst-case parameter scenarios. 

3. In addition, I have worked on, and remain interested in, distance related problems in similarity search algorithms and high dimensional data analysis.