I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. I am co-advised by Dr. T. M. Murali and Dr. Anuj Karpatne.

My research interests include solving impactful problems in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics using Natural Language Processing and Graph Machine Learning. Currently, I am using language models to draw information from viral genome and study the evolution of viruses.

Prior to starting graduate school, I completed my bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai, India in 2016. Thereafter, I worked as a Software Engineer for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. at Mumbai for four years. The industrial experience helped me hone my software development skills and learn about the journey of an application from proof-of-concept to deployment in production.