She received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for developing a portable thermocycler for DNA amplification. She did postdoctoral research at Curie Institute, Paris, and Cambridge University, where she explored microfabrication technology, label-free biosensing, thin-film transistors, etc. Her lab focuses on building microfluidic devices for various healthcare applications with the hope of bringing diagnostics to the patient’s bedside. Some of her current research interests are paperfluidic sensors for affordable healthcare, early diagnosis of sickle cell anemia, microfluidic cell sorting, etc.