Navin Khaneja received his B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1994, and his M.A. and M.Sc. in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 1997. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 2000. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Sloan Fellowship, and the Bessel Prize of the Humboldt Foundation. His research interests include control theory and NMR spectroscopy, and he has authored approximately 90 journal papers.