Following her Ph.D., she became a fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. In 1991, she joined the University of California, Riverside (UCR) where she is now a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. During her career, she has had several visiting positions. They were: invited senior participant at the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden; an invited professor at the University of Cologne, Germany; an invited professor at Paris 7, France; an invited research fellow at Brown University, RI; and an invited senior participant at Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany; and visiting professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.[5]
She is also the editor of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics and the Editor in Chief of Algebras and Representation Theory.[6]
With Andrew N. Pressley, she is the author of the book A Guide to Quantum Groups (Cambridge University Press, 1994).[7]
Honors
The Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award from the UCR Academic Senate.[5]
American Mathematical Society 2016 Class of Fellows.
Simons Fellow 2019–2020.
Infosys Visiting Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Science, 2019–2023.
