I graduated with a PhD. in June 2008 from the Computer Science Department at the University of Minnesota in the wonderful Minneapolis/St. Paul Area. My dissertation adviser was Prof. George Karypis.

My thesis was Protein Structure and Function Prediction using Kernel Methods , and dealt with development of machine-learning methods for predicting the structure and function of proteins using sequence information only.

I also got my Masters in Computer Science with a minor in Bioinformatics in December 2005 from the University of Minnesota.

I grew up in the city of Mumbai, India with an undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering at Veermata Jeejabai Technological Institute (V.J.T.I) in June 2003.