I received my B.Sc in Chemistry and Biology from Andhra Loyola College, Vijayawada in 1997. I received my Master's degrees, M.Sc in Biochemistry from University of Hyderabad, India, in 2000 and M.Tech in Biotechnology from Anna University, India, in 2002. Then I joined Shantha Biotechnics Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India and worked on gene cloning, expression and purification of single chain antibodies. Later in 2003, I moved back to the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Hyderabad for my doctoral research where I focused on the bioinformatics analysis of the promoter sequences of eukaryotes and graduated in 2007. Since 2008, I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. My research interests include systems biology and bioinformatics analysis of cellular signaling and transcriptional regulation and semantic integration and visualization of the life sciences data.