She holds a BE (Electronics) from Pune University, MSc (Computer Science) from Newcastle University, UK and a PhD (EECE) from Newcastle University UK. After her PhD at Newcastle University, she worked as a postdoc at University of Edinburgh, Scotland for almost 3 years before relocating to India. Dr Koppad has published the results of her research at various conferences and workshops across the world – in countries like – Spain, Brazil, Finland, Italy, Greece, USA etc.