Dr. Tyagi is a Lecturer at NUS College. She is affiliated with the Global Narratives, Making Connections, and Thinking With Writing pillars.

She grew up in India and Kuwait, attended college and graduate school in the US, then moved to Singapore in 2018 to work at NUS.

She teaches courses on popular culture, including movies, TV, and music.

Her doctoral research focused on technological enhancements to human vision within films featuring the American oil industry. Her more recent research continues examining the intersection between art and technology, particularly when that intersection is rooted in the human body. 

She received the NUS College Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2023, and the NUS Long Service Award in 2024.

In her free time, Dr. Tyagi likes to travel—she has been to every continent in the world, including Antarctica—as well as try new restaurants and read.