Mayank is a scientist with the research division of TATA Consultancy Services in Mumbai. He also holds an Adjunct appointment with the Systems and Control group at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Prior to joining TCS, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering in 2011 from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and MS in Mechanical Science and Engineering in 2014, MS in Mathematics in 2015 and PhD in Mechanical Science and Engineering in 2018, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in modeling, optimization, control and inference in network systems with applications to distributed optimization, bioinformatics and computational biology, transportation networks, control of microgrids and deep learning theory. Mayank is a recipient of the Institute Silver Medal in 2011, the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in 2015 and the ME Outstanding Publication Award in 2017.