Shailaja received a B.Tech degree in Information Technology from Kakatiya University, India in 2003 and M.Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur,India in 2006. During the masters program she worked as a teaching assistant and did her thesis in Biometrics as part of the program.
After obtaining a M.Tech degree she joined the Virtualization team at Microsoft India Development Center in 2006 as a software design engineer. While working at Microsoft she contributed to the products Virtual PC 2007, Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, Hyper-v and Windows Virtual PC.
Shailaja joined the Phd program at Old Dominion University in Fall 2009. Her research interests include BioInformatics, parallel computing and computer architecture. She is currently working on DNA motif finding problem under the guidance of Prof. Zubair and Prof. Desh Ranjan. She recently developed a parallel approach for solving the problem on multi-core architecture and she is working on modifying the approach for the GPU architecture.
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