Vidhya is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She was born and brought up in Kerala, India. She received her B. Tech in Electronics and Biomedical Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology and MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. She studies brain perfusion and dynamics of cerebrospinal fluid flow across wake and sleep states using a multimodal approach involving fMRI, fNIRS, and EEG. Apart from research, she enjoys travel and music.