Prof. Schwartz received the B.A. (summa cum laude), M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1997, 1998, and 2004 respectively, all from the Computer Science Department. He was a Fulbright post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, and a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology. While on sabbatical 2012-2014, he was a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Prof. Schwartz received the 2009 IEEE Communications Society Best Paper Award in Signal Processing and Coding for Data Storage. He has also been serving as an Associate Editor for Coding Techniques for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory since 2014.