Born in India, raised in United States. I graduated University of California, Berkeley for my bachelors in Cognitive Science and Molecular and Cell Biology. I studied neurobiology in Portugal on a Fulbright scholarship, before completing an MD/PhD at University of California, Irvine. Now I am a psychiatry resident at University of Texas, Southwestern, in the NIH-supported R25 Research Track, with interest in geriatric psychiatry and noninvasive neurostimulation. I do science communication work as a hobby.