Swanand Ravindra Kadhe

Senior Research Scientist

IBM Research

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I am a Senior Research Scientist with IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. My current research is centered around building mathematical foundations of machine learning to address privacy, security, and scalability challenges, with a particular focus on large language models and federated learning. My research interests lie in the areas of machine learning for large language models, distributed learning, distributed computing and storage systems, and blockchains.

Prior to joining IBM Research, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the EECS Department of University of California, Berkeley, where I am working with Kannan Ramchandran. During my postdoc, I designed and analyzed scalable algorithms for privacy-preserving and robust distributed machine learning and for enabling distributed computing on emerging platforms such as serverless systems and blockchains. In my research, I applied fundamental ideas from information and coding theory, signal processing, optimization, and cryptography in a principled and foundational manner. 

Prior to joining UC Berkeley, I completed my PhD from the ECE Department of Texas A&M University, where I was advised by Alex Sprintson. In my doctoral research, I developed coding-theoretic techniques for cloud storage systems to provide security against eavesdropping attacks and ensure high data availability for fast content download. I also designed efficient algorithms for private information retrieval that enable users to access records from a remote database while preserving the privacy of queries.

I have been extremely fortunate to work with Emina Soljanin (Rutgers University),  Robert Calderbank (Duke University), and Sidharth Jaggi (University of Bristol) during my PhD and postdoc.

Before starting my PhD, I worked as an R&D Engineer at the Innovation Labs of TATA Consultancy Services, Bangalore. The theme of my work was “Signal Processing and Coding Techniques for Futuristic Communications and Storage”, with a focus on compressive sensing and network coding.

I obtained my master's degree from the Electrical Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in July 2009. My thesis was on “Multi-antenna Broadcast Channels with Limited Feedback”, advised by A. K. Chaturvedi.

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