Biography

Priyanka Kaswan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where she is working with Prof. Andrea J. Goldsmith. She completed her Ph.D. at University of Maryland, College Park under the supervision of Prof. Sennur Ulukus. Prior to that, she completed her Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her research focus is on timely information dissemination, gossip algorithms, misinformation in large networks, resource allocation and machine learning. 

She won the Rising Stars in EECS award 2024, hosted by EECS department at MIT. She is the recipient of 2024 ECE Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship Award at University of Maryland. She was also awarded the George Harhalakis Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2023, the Outstanding Research Assistant Award in 2023, the Kulkarni Summer Research Fellowship in 2022, the Dean’s Fellowship in 2019, and she was selected as a Future Faculty Fellow by Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland.