Education

She completed her B.Sc in 1982 at St. Joseph's college, Bangalore and then got her M.Sc. through correspondence from Annamalai University

Annamalai University

Annamalai University is a Public University located in Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu, India. The university offers courses of higher education in arts, sciences and engineering.The university also provides around 380 courses under distance mode...

 in 1985. After that she went for PhD at TIFR and was awarded her PhD under supervision of Raman Parimala

Raman Parimala

Raman Parimala is an Indian mathematician known for her contributions to algebra. She is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of mathematics at Emory University. For many years, she was a professor at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Mumbai.- Background :Parimala was raised in Tamil Nadu, India...

 in 1992. Her dissertation was "Witt Groups of Real Surfaces and Real Geometry".

Contribution to mathematics

Together with Coates, Fukaya, Kato

Kazuya Kato

is a Japanese mathematician. He grew up in the prefecture of Wakayama in Japan. He attended college at the University of Tokyo, from which he also obtained his master's degree in 1975, and his PhD in 1980. He was a professor at Tokyo University, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Kyoto University...

, and Venjakob she formulated a non-commutative version of the main conjecture of Iwasawa theory, on which much foundation of this important subject is based.

Editorial position

• Managing Editor, International Journal of Number Theory (IJNT)
• Editor, Journal of Ramanujan Mathematical Society (JRMS)