Niranjini was awarded the scholarship to pursue MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She got her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelors’ degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Trichy, India. Her expertise is in the area of networked embedded sensing technologies. During her PhD, her work won the International Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition in 2015 and 2018. She was a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation at CMU. She received the CMU William S. Dietrich II Presidential PhD Fellowship in 2015 and the Samsung PhD Fellowship in internet of things area in 2016. She was among the MIT EECS Rising Stars in 2018. Currently, she is a Senior Research Scientist at Amazon in the Energy and Electrification domain.