Kiran grew up in Ranchi, India. She got her Masters' degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad. She completed her PhD from IITB-Monash Research Academy, a joint PhD program with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia. During her PhD, she developed a model to reconstruct the chromatin configurations under the supervision of Prof Ranjith Padinhateeri and Prof. Ravi Jagadeeshan. At present, she is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin with Prof. Dave Thirumalai. Her research interest includes studying the role of epigenetic markers in chromatin organization.