I am a PhD student, co-advised by Cedric Feschotte and Andy Clark.  I was born in northeastern India and grew up in the vibrant city of Mumbai. Before coming to Cornell, I worked in Nelson Lau’s lab on structural variation in P-elements and its impact on hybrid dysgenesis in D. melanogaster. I did my undergrad at University of Houston and my honors thesis in Erin Kelleher’s lab on natural variation in P-element induced hybrid dysgenesis. I'm broadly interested in co-evolution of transposable elements and small RNA pathways that repress them in animals. My current research focuses on the evolution of piRNA clusters and other small non-coding RNAs that repress transposable elements in flies and fish. My research employs a combination of computational, genetic and molecular biology methods.