Anand Sarwate
Bio:Anand Sarwate is currently a Postdoctoral researcher at the Information Theory and Applications Center at the University of California, San Diego. He earned BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from MIT in 2002 and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005 and 2008, where he was under the supervision of Professor Michael Gastpar. Dr. Sarwate received the Samuel Silver Memorial Scholarship Award and Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award from the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. His research interests include information theory, distributed signal processing, machine learning, communications, and randomized algorithms for communications and signal processing in sensor networks.