Diksha Gupta is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia. Her research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, network science, and distributed systems, with a focus on applying AI to complex, real-world networks, including social, cyber, and supply-chain systems. Prior to joining UVA, she held research positions at INRIA France, IBM Research, and the National University of Singapore. She received her Ph.D. with Distinction from the University of New Mexico, where her work focused on provably secure and scalable protocols for decentralized systems. Her broader research interests include randomized algorithms, distributed graph algorithms, algorithmic game theory, and biologically-inspired systems.