Sukanya obtained her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in India where she worked on developing droplet-based microfluidic devices for studying protein aggregation. She did her PhD from University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation research was on understanding intrinsically disordered proteins, in particular the Alzheimer’s amyloid-beta peptide and  amyloid fibril aggregation using all-atom and coarse-grained molecular dynamic simulations.