Swanand Kadhe is a postdoctoral scholar in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley, hosted by Kannan Ramchandran and Ozan Koyluoglu. He completed his PhD from the ECE Department of Texas A&M University, under the supervision of Alex Sprintson. Prior to that, he worked as a researcher at the Innovation Labs of Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore. His research interests include coding techniques for distributed learning, computing, and storage, and information-theoretic security and privacy.