Anand D. Sarwate

Associate Professor

ECE

Phone:(848) 445-8516
Email:anand.sarwate@rutgers.edu
Office:CoRE 517
Website: https://adsarwate.github.io

Education

  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
  • MS in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
  • BS in Mathematics, MIT, 2002
  • BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 2002

 

Previous Affiliations

  • Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, Oct. 2011-Dec. 2013
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Information Theory and Applications Center, University of California, San Diego, Sept. 2008-Sept. 2011

Research Interests

Distributed optimization and signal processing, machine learning and statistics, information theory, and privacy-preserving data analysis

Selected Publications

Recent Journal Papers

  • K. Chaudhuri, A.D. Sarwate, K. Sinha, A Near-Optimal Algorithm for Differentially-Private Principal Components, Journal of Machine Learning Research 14: pp. 2905--2943, September 2013. [BibTeX entry]
  • A.D. Sarwate, K. Chaudhuri, Signal processing and machine learning with differential privacy: theory, algorithms, and challenges, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 30(5): pp. 86--94, September 2013. [BibTeX entry]
  • X. Jiang, A.D. Sarwate, L. Ohno-Machado, Privacy Technology to Share Data for Comparative Effectiveness Research : a systematic review, Medical Care 51(8 Suppl. 3): pp. S58--S65, August 2013. [BibTeX entry]
  • B.K. Dey, S. Jaggi, M. Langberg, A.D. Sarwate, Upper Bounds on the Capacity of Binary Channels with Causal Adversaries, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 59(6): pp. 3753--3763, June 2013. [BibTeX entry]
  • A.D. Sarwate, S. Checkoway, H. Shacham, Risk-Limiting Audits and the Margin of Victory in Nonplurality Elections, Statistics, Politics and Policy 3(3): pp. 29--64, December 2012. [BibTeX entry]
  • S.A. Vinterbo, A.D. Sarwate, A. Boxwala, Protecting Count Queries in Study Design, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 19(5): pp. 750--757, September 2012. [BibTeX entry] [Local/OA version]
  • A.D. Sarwate, A.G. Dimakis, The Impact of Mobility on Gossip Algorithms, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 58(3): pp. 1731--1742, March 2012. [BibTeX entry] [Local/OA version]
  • A.D. Sarwate, M. Gastpar, List-Decoding for the Arbitrarily Varying Channel Under State Constraints, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 58(3): pp. 1372--1384, March 2012. [BibTeX entry] [Local/OA version]
  • K. Chaudhuri, C. Monteleoni, A.D. Sarwate, Differentially private empirical risk minimization, Journal of Machine Learning Research 12: pp. 1069--1109, March 2011. [BibTeX entry] [Local/OA version]

 

Recent Conference Papers

  • V.M. Prabhakaran, A.D. Sarwate, Assisted Sampling of Correlated Sources, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2013. [BibTeX entry]
  • A.D. Sarwate, Merging Opinions by Social Sampling of Posteriors, Proceedings of the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computation, October 2012. [BibTeX entry]
  • B.K. Dey, S. Jaggi, M. Langberg, A.D. Sarwate, Improved Upper Bounds on the Capacity of Binary Channels with Causal Adversaries, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2012. [BibTeX entry]
  • A.D. Sarwate, An AVC perspective on correlated jamming, Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM 2012), July 2012. [BibTeX entry]
  • A.D. Sarwate, T. Javidi, Distributed learning from social sampling, Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2012. [BibTeX entry]
  • A.D. Sarwate, T. Javidi, Opinion Dynamics and Distributed Learning of Distributions, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computation, September 2011. [BibTeX entry]