Nitin Vaidya is the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair and Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. During 2018-2024, he served as the Department Chair of Computer Science at Georgeotwn University. He previously held faculty positions in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001-2018), and in the Department of Computer Science at the Texas A&M University (1992-2001). His current research interests include distributed computing, including distributed learning, and fault-tolerant algorithms. He has also performed extensive research in wireless networking. Nitin has co-authored papers that received awards at several conferences, including ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, SSS and ICDCN. He is a fellow of the IEEE. Nitin has served as the Chair of the Steering Committee for the ACM PODC conference, as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and as the Editor-in-Chief for ACM SIGMOBILE publication MC2R. He received Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Science-Bangalore, and Bachelor’s degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani.