He received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from MIT in 2002 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2008. He is the Online Editor of the IEEE Information Theory Society (2015-) and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks (2015-). Prof. Sarwate received the NSF CAREER award in 2015. His interests are in information theory, machine learning, and signal processing, with applications to distributed systems, privacy and security, and biomedical research.