I completed my Ph.D. in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University in June 2008, where I was a Stanford Graduate Fellow. My area of interest is Human Evolutionary Genetics. My advisor was Serafim Batzoglou, and I worked with Luca Cavalli-Sforza and Marc Feldman on using simulations to build and test models for ancient human migrations. Our simulation work on the genetic prehistory of humans supports a Serial Founder Effect out of Africa. I am also working with Deborah Rogers on simulations of the outcomes of cultural choices made by humans.
I have also worked on some problems in Optical Networking with my wife Smita Rai.
I completed my B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2002 and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2005.