[3][4] After education in India in the school of philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti,[3] she returned to the US for her higher education,[3][4] and majored in physics as an undergraduate at Cornell University, with Carl Franck and N. David Mermin as faculty mentors, graduating magna cum laude in 1996.
Next, she went to the University of California, Santa Barbara for graduate study with Matthew P. A. Fisher, completing her Ph.D. in 2002.
[5] After completing her doctorate, she became a postdoctoraler research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with Paul Goldbart and Tony Leggett.
As well as her primary appointment in the physics department, she also holds affiliations with the Illinois Materials Research Laboratory and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
[2] Vishveshwara was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2019, after a nomination from the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics, "for pioneering theory of quantum dynamics in nonequilibrium systems and novel phenomena in cold Bose gases".