Rawad Bitar is a senior researcher and lecturer at the Technical University of Munich doing a habilitation (accreditation for thesis supervision). He received the Diploma in computer and communication engineering from the Lebanese University, in 2013, the M.S. degree from the Doctoral School of the Lebanese University, in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, in 2020. Before starting the habilitation in 2022, he spent two years as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Munich. His research interests lie in the broad are of information theory and coding theory with a focus on coding for information theoretically private and secure distributed systems with application to machine learning and coding for DNA-based data storage.