About

I grew up in Chennai, India — a city that shaped my curiosity about science, language, and the ways people move through the world. I left to study immunology in Tokyo, then biotechnology at Johns Hopkins, and eventually landed at Northeastern University in Boston, where I am finishing my PhD in Human Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences.

My research lives at the intersection of neuroscience and digital health. One thread asks how autistic individuals perceive and predict movement — using eye tracking, motion capture, and computational models to study the temporal dynamics of gaze and sensorimotor prediction. Another thread asks what happens when you take those same principles and build something useful: Sugar Slay, a gamified decision-support app for people living with Type 1 diabetes, co-developed with my advisor's family in mind.

I am drawn to questions that sit between the lab and the world. How do we move? How do we predict? How do we build tools that respect the complexity of being human? I do not think research is meant to stay in journals.

Outside research I spend time mentoring students, tutoring kids in Dorchester and Roxbury, organizing public speaking workshops, and occasionally standing in front of a microphone at Toastmasters. I served as President of Northeastern Toastmasters, Partnerships Lead for TEDxNortheasternU, and Communications Lead for Nucleate Boston.

I believe the skills a doctoral education gives you — patience, communication, the ability to break hard problems into manageable pieces — belong to everyone, not just the lab.