Dr. Cadambe received his Ph.D from the University of California, Irvine in 2011. Between 2011 and 2014, he was a postdoctoral researcher, jointly with the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at Boston University, and the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr. Cadambe is a recipient of the 2009 IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award, the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA) Best Paper Award, the 2016 NSF Career Award and a finalist for the 2016 Bell Labs Prize. His research involves understanding of data communication and storage using the tools of information theory and coding theory. His interests include applications to wireless communication networks, and cloud storage and computing systems.