Ashwin Pananjady is a Gerald D. McInvale Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech, with a joint appointment between the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests lie broadly in statistics, optimization, and information theory, as well as their applications in data science, machine learning, and reinforcement learning. Pananjady received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California Berkeley, and the B.Tech. degree (with honors) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He has received an Amazon Research Award, an Adobe Data Science Faculty Research Award, an honorable mention for the Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award, a Best Paper Prize (runner-up) for Young Researchers in Continuous Optimization from the Mathematical Optimization Society, the inaugural Lawrence D. Brown Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize (for the best dissertation in EECS, UC Berkeley), and a Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship in Probability, Geometry and Computation in High Dimensions. His teaching has has been recognized by both Georgia Tech and UC Berkeley.