Twinkle Jain is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Systems and Networks program at Northeastern University, advised by Professor Gene Cooperman. Her research is focused on achieving resilience in the High Performance Computing environment via a user-level transparent checkpoint-restore technique. In recent times, she has visited Inria, France as a student, and later as a research visitor, investigating heavy tails on big data platforms in an on-going project.