The Society is pleased to announce that has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award for her dissertation entitled "Communication with Byzantine Users."
Neha Sangwan is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego, where she works with Prof. Tara Javidi and Prof. Arya Mazumdar. She completed her PhD at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, under the supervision of Prof. Vinod Prabhakaran in 2023. Prior to that, she received an MSc degree from Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2017 and a BE degree from Delhi College of Engineering in 2013.
Her research interests lie in information theory with applications to statistical learning theory, information-theoretic cryptography, and quantum state discrimination.