[3] Gopinath majored in electrical engineering as an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, graduating summa cum laude in 1998.
[6] She continued to study electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a master's degree there in 2000 and completing her Ph.D. in 2005.
[7] Her dissertation, Studies of third-order nonlinearities in materials and devices for ultrafast lasers, was supervised by Erich P.
[1] After four years as a laser researcher at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Gopinath joined the University of Colorado Boulder as an assistant professor in 2009.
[7] Gopinath was named as a 2022 Optica Fellow, "for pioneering contributions to nonlinear optics of nanophotonic devices and semiconductor lasers, and to the physics and applications of orbital angular momentum in optical fibers".