I am a final-year PhD candidate in Digital and Computational Fashion. A postgraduate with a Distinction in Fashion Marketing and Branding from the University of Southampton, UK and the Most Innovative Graduation Project Award-winning Fashion Technology graduate from the National Institute of Fashion Technology, India. I have worked in various domains of the fashion and textile industry, may it be sourcing, buying, manufacturing, product development, sales and marketing, gaining 10+ years of strong pragmatic academic and industrial experience, with approx. 2 dozen internships/ work experiences directly working with key stakeholders and decision-makers.

I have been employed as the COO for an Indian ethical fashion startup and the COO for the Indian subsidiary of a 7 million GBP turnover British textile and merchandise trading company. Additionally, I have taken up contract-based roles for the latest 3D fashion tech. Companies like "CLO 3D Virtual Fashion”. Alongside my full-time jobs, I was engaged in part-time remote roles for a couple of American and Canadian sustainable fashion startups, streamlining branding and supply chain.

During my master's and undergraduate years, I have led a fashion show in the Winchester Fashion Week, interned with a university faculty-led sustainable British women’s wear brand, and with the producers of H&M and MANGO in Bangladesh, also with the largest worsted textile producing unit of Raymond in India. I was recently engaged in growing my startup. Alongside this, I was consulting for two global market research firms in terms of 3D fashion design software evaluation. I have also presented and published papers at the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) and the Textile Institute World Conference (TIWC).