Sachin received his PhD in EECS from MIT in 2009, and his B.Tech in EE from IIT Bombay in 2003. His research focuses on designing and building next generation high-capacity wireless networks using techniques from information and coding theory. His research has won numerous awards including the 2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award – Honorable Mention, the George Sprowls Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation in EECS at MIT, the MIT Deshpande Center Innovation Grant, the 2009 William Bennett Prize for Best Paper in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and an Okawa Foundation Fellowship. His research interests are in networks, wireless communications, applied coding theory and security. Sachin is also the CEO and Co-Founder of Kumu Networks.