She has coauthored chapters in the books Programming Models for Parallel Computing, published by MIT Press, and Parallel Programming with OpenACC, published by Elsevier, 2016. Her research areas include exploring high-level programming models and its language extensions, building compiler and runtime implementations and validating and verifying implementations and their conformance to standard specifications. She is a member of the OpenMP, OpenACC, and SPEC HPG communities. Dr. Chandrasekaran earned her PhD in computer science engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, for creating a high-level software stacks for FPGAs.