Saswati Sarkar received a Master of
Engineering in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian
Institute of Science in $1996$ and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from University of Maryland, College Park in $2000.$ She is
currently an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and
Systems Engineering in University of Pennsylvania. Her research
interests are in resource allocation and performance analysis in
communication networks. She received the Motorola gold medal for the
best masters student in the division of electrical sciences at the
Indian Institute of Science and a National Science Foundation (NSF)
Faculty Early Career Development Award in $2003.$  She has been
associate editors of IEEE Transaction on Wireless Communications from
$2001$ and journal of computer networks since 2004.