Aniket Murhekar is currently a fully-funded PhD student studying Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he also works as a Teaching Assistant as well as Graduate Research Assistant. He graduated with a B.Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His research work has been published at international conferences and his work while interning at Adobe has received a US patent. Aniket likes swimming, reading about philosophy and mythology, and classical Marathi songs. He is also passionate about teaching.