I am a Senior Lecturer I in the Computer Science department at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Evolutionary dynamics on complex networks, machine learning, coding, and pedagogy
Being present, books, food, music, and travel
I was born in the southern Indian city of Chennai and grew up in Mumbai. I received my primary and secondary education at Model English School and higher secondary education at Ruparel College. During my second year at Ruparel College, I attended the famous (now defunct) Agrawal Classes. I received my bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from VESIT in 1996 after which I worked for two years as a software engineer at Tata Interactive Systems, where I implemented multimedia-rich e-learning software. I received my master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Boston (UMB) in 2001, following which I worked for five years as a product developer at BMC Software, where I developed system- and application-level performance-monitoring software. In 2006, I decided to get a doctoral degree with the goal of pursuing a career in academia. I received my PhD in Comptuer Science, also from UMB, in 2013. My thesis, entitled Evolutionary Dynamics on Complex Networks, was directed by Prof. Timothy Killingback from the Mathematics Department. After a one-year postdoc with the Physics department at UMB, I joined the Computer Science department as a Lecturer in Fall 2014 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer I in Fall 2021.