Meenakshi is currently a graduate student at GATech in the MS-BINF program. She is an Indian that grew up in the Middle East and completed her undergraduate education at NIT, Jalandhar. She has a strong interest in computational biology (especially single-cell omics) and is currently learning about machine learning. When she is not doing science, she is an ardent reader, a Model UN-er, and someone who considers baking as her sort of meditation. She is currently working on the transcriptional profiling of blood and placenta in patients with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) in the Bhasin Lab.