Shashwat is a computer scientist based in New York City. He currently works as a quantitative researcher at Tower Research. He did his PhD with Prof. Mary Wootters at Stanford University, where part of his PhD was funded by a Google Graduate Fellowship in Stanford Engineering. Prior to that, he received a master's degree as a Benefactor's Scholar at St John's College at the University of Cambridge, where he received the best thesis award. He received his bachelor's in mathematics from Brown University where he received the Albert Arnold Bennett Award for outstanding achievement in mathematics, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. His primary interests are in discrete mathematics, error-correcting codes and distributed data storage.
His research has been featured as invited papers in special issues of SIAM Journal of Computing and ACM Transactions on Storage, and he was a finalist for the IEEE Jack Keil Wolf award.
He previously worked at Google, where he was a Senior Software Engineer and conducted research on various aspects of data storage technologies.