Prachi is a third-year PhD student at the Indian Institute of Science, studying under Professor Navin Kashyap. She holds a master’s degree in Engineering Physics from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal. Her research focuses on coding schemes for DNA-based data storage, particularly weakly constrained codes with applications in data communication. She is also interested in molecular data storage, information inequalities over additive structures, and privacy-preserving machine learning, aiming to deepen the theoretical foundations of her work.