Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University in 2009.

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst 2004

B.S. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India in 2001.

Passive Microwave and Millimeter-wave sensors for Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing applications. Instrument development from proposals to on-orbit operations. Leading teams and producing high quality cost effective spaceborne instruments

• Sensors, Microdevices and Instruments  | Observatory Technologies
• Sensors, Microdevices and Instruments  | Remote/In Situ/Life Detection Instruments And Sensors

• EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer): Instrument Manager for the Microwave Electrojet Magnetogram instruments operating at 118.75 GHz on the three-satellite constellation mission designed to sample the Earth’s current-induced magnetic field. Launched in March 2025.
• PREFIRE: Instrument Lead for the thermal spectrometers operating from 4-45 um enabling measurement paradigms or small-satellite constellations. Launched in May 2024.
• TEMPEST-D: She served as the instrument lead engineer and manager for this highly successful CubeSat mission, which demonstrated the ability of miniaturized millimeter wave 90 GHz- 183 GHz radiometers to capture images of hurricanes and storms. Launched in 2018 and operated until 2021. A copy of this instrument was also operational on the ISS from 2021-2024.
• COWVR - Systems Engineer also responsible for Polarimetric radiometer performance and calibration operating at 18.7/23.8/34 GHz. COWVR was operational on the ISS from 2021-2024.
• SENTINEL-6 HRMR - Systems Engineer also responsible for radiometer performance and calibration operating at 90/130/166 GHz. Operational on Sentinel-6A and B.
• JASON-3 AMR - Systems Engineer also responsible for radiometer performance and calibration operating at 18.7/23.8/34 GHz. Cognizant Engineer for the AMR Calibration Noise Sources.

• NASA Award | Group Achievement Awards for PREFIRE and EZIE-MEM (2024)
• JPL Explorer Award (2023)
• JPL Principal Designation | 3860 - Instrument Electronics And Software (2022)
• NASA Award | Exceptional Public Achievement Medal | TEMPEST-D Instrument design and development (2019)