The opportunity to work under Prof. Sunita Chandrasekaran during my PhD proved to be invaluable for my research, collaborations, and career. I will always be grateful for her mentorship, guidance, and expertise during my time here. She actively fosters a collaborative and enriching environment in the lab. It also helps that everyone here is wonderful, smart, and fun to be around :).
The various areas of research I had the chance to explore during my PhD and the skills I developed during my time here are proving to be useful in my current role and I’m confident they will continue to do so for the rest of my career. My work here gave me access to some of the worlds leading supercomputers and thus allowed me the ability to work on problems I could not have tackled anywhere else. Sunita always encouraged me to become a well rounded researcher through effective communication and helped to find the most impactful venues to practice these skills. The collaborative research I engaged in beyond the lab allowed me to leverage the expertise of those outside the lab to augment my work done here.
I’m deeply grateful for the time I’ve spent here and for the lifelong friends I’ve made during this journey. I look forward to seeing world class research that continues to be produced at CRPL.
Will miss taco Tuesday’s :(.