Currently, I am a Research Scientist at the Centre for Brain Research (CBR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc). I work on multimodal data analysis to understand dementia risk, with a focus on ECG signals, carotid Doppler, and MRI data. I am also involved in improving data pipelines from collection of ECG and carotid doppler data to database integration in the ongoing longitudinal studies at CBR.

Before this, I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at CBR (Nov 2023 – Apr 2025), where I worked on Brain MRI data to study dementia risk. I estimated cognitive reserve across rural and urban cohorts in India, conducted mediation analyses between cardiovascular risk and cognitive performance, and contributed to diseases' trajectory modeling. 

From July 2022 to October 2023, I worked as a Research Fellow with the India Urban Data Exchange (IUDX) project, where I focused on applied cryptography and privacy. I contributed to secure multi-party computation (SMPC) protocols, enhancing the MOTION2NX C++ framework for secure neural network inference. I also proposed and implemented algorithms that significantly reduced memory (by 40×) and execution time (by 10×) without compromising data privacy.

I completed my Ph.D. in Network Science Lab at the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (DESE), IISc, where I was advised by Prof. Chandramani Singh and Prof. Joy Kuri. I was a recipient of the Visvesvaraya Scholarship. My Ph.D. research focused on applications of optimization, game theory, and stochastic control. I worked on Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), including restless multi-armed bandits, Whittle’s Index, and Partially Observable MDPs (POMDPs) for resource allocation problems.

Before my Ph.D., I worked at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) from January 2013 to April 2014 as an Assistant Systems Engineer, and interned at Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab in Bangalore from August 2011 to April 2012.

I completed my B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Shri Vishnu Engineering College for Women in 2012.