Vita (abbreviated)

2004-date      Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Windsor.

2000-2004     Postdoc, FOCUS Center, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
                    Mentor: Phil Bucksbaum.

1994-2000     Ph. D. (
Physics), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. 
Advisors: Ravi Rau & Ken Schafer.

1991-1993     M. Sc. (Physics), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. India.                       
1988-1991     B. Sc. (Physics), First Class, University of Madras, Madras. India.
(Meenakshi College for Women)

Awards and Fellowships
2001-2003     Research Fellowship, FOCUS, National Science Foundation Physics Frontiers Center,
The University of Michigan.
2000             Charles E. Coates Distinguished Dissertation Award, Louisiana State University.
1991-1993     Merit Scholarship, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.
1991             University Medals for French and English, University of Madras, India.
1986-1994     National Talent Search Scholarship, National Council for Educational Research
and Training, New Delhi, India.

Memberships
Canadian Association of Physicists
American Physical Society
Association for Women in Science

Service and Professional Activities
Member, Commission on Quantum Electronics, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (2005-2008).
Regional Councilor (Southwestern Ontario), Council of Canadian Association of Physicists (2006-2008).
Coordinator, World Year of Physics activities, University of Windsor, 2005
Co-chair, Workshop on Building Computational Devices using Coherent Control, The University of Michigan, June 7-9, 2004.
Invited participant, NSF-DOE-NIH Workshop on Opportunities in Terahertz Science, Washington, DC, February 12-14, 2004.
Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on Perspectives in Decoherence Control and Quantum Computing, The University of Michigan, August 21-28, 2002.
Participant, Summer School on Computational Materials Science: Tools for Multiple Length and Time Scales, University of Illinois, Urbana, May 29 – Jun 7, 2001.
Reviewer, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A,Journal of Modern Optics, Canadian Journal of Physics, NSERC, 2001 - present.