I am a Director of Neuroinformatics and an Assistant Professor at the Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute (OBI) with a secondary appointment at Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center. Using next-generation sequencing approaches at single cell resolution coupled with computational and machine-learning approaches, I am studying the complex gene regulatory networks to identify genomic signatures involved in brain disorders, sleep and circadian regulation.

Born in Akola, Maharashtra, India, completing my schoolwork and college in Amravati District in 2000, I entered Brijlal Biyani Science College, Amravati and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Science (B.Sc.). From 2003 to 2005, I attended Hislop School of Biotechnology, Nagpur, India for my Master’s degree (M.Sc.) in Biotechnology. Post M.Sc., I served as a Research Associate cum Faculty at Genecity Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India till 2008 and later as Executive - Research and Development at Yashraj Biotechnology Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India till August 2009. In August 2009, I joined the Graduate School at the Department of Biological Science, UT Dallas first for my M.S. in Molecular and Cell Biology and later continued as a Ph.D. student under the mentorship of Prof. Michael Zhang. After completing my doctoral studies in December 2015, I joined the laboratory of Prof. Genevieve Konopka Lab at the Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center for my post-doctoral studies.