She is a professor in the School of Technology & Computer Science at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.
[2] Telikepalli graduated from IIT Madras in 1995, with a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering.
[2] After postdoctoral research with Kurt Mehlhorn at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany from 2002 to 2004, she returned to India as an assistant professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2005.
[2] Telikepalli was named an associate fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 2007.
[1] She was one of the winners of the 2008 Indian National Science Academy Medal for Young Scientists.