Anand D. Sarwate joined as an Assistant Professor in the  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering  at  Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey  in 2014 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. He received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from  MIT  in 2002, an M.S. in  Electrical Engineering  from  UC Berkeley  in 2005 and a PhD in  Electrical Engineering  from  UC Berkeley  in 2008. From 2008-2011 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the  Information Theory and Applications Center  at  UC San Diego  and from 2011-2013 he was a Research Assistant Professor at the  Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago , a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute located on the  University of Chicago  campus. He has been 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.