After PhD, I worked at the Zurich IBM Research Lab. In Fall 2007, I joined the faculty in the CS department at U. of Virginia in picturesque Charlottesville. I was promoted to Associate professor (tenured) in 2013. In 2016, I moved to Northeastern University and was then promoted to full Professor.

I’ve received a small number of awards, including most notably the NSF Career award, the Microsoft Faculty Fellowship Award, a University of Virginia Professor of the Year award by the student ACM chapter.

I have three children with my partner and acclaimed architectural historian Cammy Brothers.

People wonder why I write my name in lower-case. There is no deep reason other than it was a habit I picked up in elementary school while learning to write in cursive. I’m not picky about it, so take license and write it how you prefer.

My aunt is the celebrated Gujurati author, Himanshi Shelat, and my brother Anang runs a pediatric cancer research group at St. Judes.