I enjoy bringing clarity to chaos by focusing on the simplest solution to the underlying problem. I like to simplify and make sense of the world.

 I’ve excelled in diverse domains including medicine and neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health, patent examination and aviation, internationally and in the US, at one time managing the largest aviation safety program in the world.

I’ve sat on enough panels and participated in enough roundtable discussions on Data and AI, that I am now a bonafide expert. 

My first paper, in Nature Neuroscience contributed to current models of memory and learning, and my last paper in IEEE contributed to human machine teaming in the cockpit. 

Early in my career, when I was an electrical engineering patent examiner at the US Patent and Trademark Office, I discovered that I was in a job that was nowhere near the neighborhood of being anywhere close to the vicinity of my calling.

Almost 15 years later, when I was working with the wise and wonderful AT in aerospace medicine, I discovered I was very close.  

I am a recipe tester for America’s Test Kitchen and while generally considered by those I’ve fed to be an accomplished cook, have the occasional disaster which is celebrated by my husband and the neighborhood racoons. 

I have always loved moss, stones, bark, leaves and mud and am training to be a Virginia Master Naturalist so I can teach my daughter the names of things and the thing behind the thing that makes the thing…the thing.

I have a B.S. in Physics, an M.S. in Systems Engineering and am working on my Doctoral degree, like some people work on artistic mastery – for a long time.

I am fluent in Hindi and speak Gujarati, Marathi and Punjabi poorly. I love to tell tall tales to my toddler, hike with my husband and read very old books at 3 AM.