Swanand Kadhe received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Texas A&M University in 2017. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist with IBM Research, San Jose, CA, USA. Prior to joining IBM, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the EECS Department, University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Visiting Researcher with Nokia Bell Labs, Duke University, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 2009 to 2012, he was a Research and Development Engineer with TCS Innovation Labs, Bengaluru. His research interests include privacy and security of machine learning, information and coding theory, and blockchains. He was a recipient of the 2016 Graduate Teaching Fellowship from the College of Engineering, Texas A&M University.