She holds an MEng degree in Electrical and Communications Engineering from Indian Institute of Science and PhD in Language and Information Technologies from School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Her PhD thesis focus was on the application of signal processing and language processing methods to the study of protein and proteome sequences, which led to the development of a high accuracy algorithm for transmembrane helix prediction. Her current research focus is in the area of computational molecular and systems biology, translational bioinformatics and biomedical text mining, using signal processing and machine learning.