I am a Senior Researcher at Dolby Laboratories.

I finished my PhD in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park. I was a member of the GAMMA Lab and was advised by Prof. Dinesh Manocha. My PhD dissertation focused on Affective Computing and is titled Towards Multimodal and Context-Aware Emotion Perception.

Prior to this, I graduated with a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) and a Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Information Technology from International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B), India. This was a five-year dual-degree undergraduate program (August 2013 - July 2018).

My PhD work has been recognized with two UMD Innovation of the Year Award finalist selections (2022, 2021), an Adobe Research Fellowship (2022), and the Outstanding Research Assistant Award (2022). I've also been selected for several women-in-computing programs, including the Grace Hopper Celebration (2019, 2021), the CRA Grad Cohort for Women (2021), and the Rising Stars EECS Workshop at MIT (2021). I was selected to be part of the first cohort of the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School (CMMRS) in 2017, and was earlier awarded the National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholarship by NCERT in 2009.

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