Archita Sripada grew up in India. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, India in 2014 and MS in Chemistry from Maharaja Sayajirao University, India in 2016. She joined Prof. Christian Wolf's laboratory at Georgetown University as a graduate student in Fall 2017. Her research focuses on asymmetric catalysis, design and synthesis of chiroptical sensors, chiral recognition studies and chiroptical sensing.