Viveck Cadambe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. His research involves understanding of data storage and communication using the tools of information theory and coding theory. His interests include applications to wireless communication networks, distributed storage systems such as data centers, and to distributed computing.

Dr. Cadambe received his B.Tech and M.Tech from IIT Madras in 2006. He received a Ph.D from the University of California, Irvine in 2011. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 2011 and 2014. He also held a position as a visiting researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University between 2011 and 2014. He was an intern at the Communications, Collaboration and Systems Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond WA during June-September of 2010.

Dr. Cadambe is a recipient of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA) Best Paper Award, the 2009 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award and the UCI Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Best Paper Award for 2008-09. His dissertation received the 2011 CPCC Best Dissertation Award in the UCI Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.