Prior to that, she worked as a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Gauri received her Ph.D. from MIT EECS in June 2016 and received a B.Tech and M. Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in 2010. Her awards and honors include the IBM Faculty Award (2018), Best Thesis Prize in Computer science at MIT (2012), Institute Gold Medal of IIT Bombay (2010), and the Claude Shannon Research Assistantship (2015-16).