I am a Staff Program Manager at Google where I drive strategic research engagements and investments. I'm based in Mountain View, California.

I am the global lead for academic investments to advance research using Gemini - Google's family of large language models (LLMs).  

Alongside, I lead Google's academic research strategy and investments in India, Southeast and South Asia. I am one of the founding members of Google Research India (now: Google Deepmind India). 

My interests and work sit at the intersection of Program + Product strategy and research. 

Some of the areas my work covers are: 

• Strategic programs and investments to advance world-class (collaborative) CS research between Google and academics across the world. 

• HCI research examining Human-AI collaboration across the AI development pipleine. 

I graduated with a Ph.D in Computer Science at City, University of London, advised by Alex Taylor (now at University of Edinburgh) and Anoop Sinha (Google). I hold a Masters in International Business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in Delhi and received my undergraduate degree in Computer Science at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar. I interned at eBay prior to joining Google. 

Note on collaborations and mentorship: 

• I am happy to collaborate with Faculty  and PhD students working in similar areas. Let's talk! 

• I regularly mentor students , I have (limited) slots to mentor undergraduate students with strong motivation. Write to me with what you need help with.

I am passionate about helping people find their dream jobs and run a YouTube channel where I talk about careers beyond software engineering and how to get them. Check it out!