Shruti received her Bachelors of Science and Ph. D. at the University of Houston. Her doctoral research under the guidance of Prof. Jakoah Brgoch focused on the discovery and characterization of novel phosphor materials through experiment and computation. She is now working as a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University with Prof. Sarbajit Banerjee on the synthesis of substituted vanadium oxide-based materials for neuromorphic computing applications.