Sanjeev R. Kulkarni received a B.S. in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University, an M.S. in 
Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T.
From 1985 to 1991 he was a Member of the Technical Staff at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory.  Since 1991, he has been 
with Princeton University where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean of the Graduate School.  
He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering and the 
Department of Philosophy.  Prof. Kulkarni served as Director of the Keller Center from 2011-2014, Master of Butler 
College  from  2004  to  2012,  and  Associate  Dean  for  Academic  Affairs  in  the  School  of  Engineering  and  Applied  
Science from 2003-2005.  He spent January 1996 as a research fellow at the Australian National University.  He spent 
1998 with Susquehanna International Group and was a regular consultant there from 1997 to 2001. During Summer 
2001, he was a visiting researcher at Flarion Technologies.
Prof. Kulkarni received an ARO Young Investigator Award in 1992, and an NSF Young Investigator Award in 1994.  
He  has  also  received  a  number  of  teaching  awards  at  Princeton  University,  including  the  President’s  Award  for  
Distinguished  Teaching  in  May  2007.    He  served  as  an  Associate  Editor  for  the  IEEE  Transactions  on  Information  
Theory and is a Fellow of the IEEE.  Prof. Kulkarni’s research interests include statistical pattern recognition, machine 
learning,  nonparametric  estimation,  information  theory,  wireless  networks,  signal/image/video  processing,  and  
econometrics and finance.