Veeraraghavan was born on July 11, 1962,[1] and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from IIT Madras in 1984.
She went to Duke University for graduate study in electrical engineering, earning a master's degree in 1985 and completing her Ph.D. in 1988.
[2] Her dissertation, Modeling and Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Multiple Processor Systems, was supervised by Kishor S.
[2][3] She became a researcher and member of the technical staff of AT&T Bell Labs, starting in 1988 in Columbus, Ohio and moving in 1992 to Holmdel, New Jersey.
[2] Her work there involved the development of distributed call processing technology for voice over IP services.