Avani is a master's student in the Department of Material Science and Engineering at Arizona State University. She is working under Dr. Robert Nemanich's NSL group. She completed her Bachelor Integrated Master's degree from the Department of Physics at the National Institute of Technology, Surat, India. She has the experience to grow and characterize single-crystal diamonds using 2.45 GHz and 915 MHz CVD machines in India.  She has joined the ULTRA team to work on synthesis and nucleation of c-BN film on Diamond substrate using ECR CVD method and characterization of BN/Diamond interface using XPS/UPS.