Tian, Chao

Educational Background

- A computational approach to information-theoretic converses
- Coding for distributed data storage
- Joint source-channel coding
- An approximate approach to network information theory
- Lossy multiuser source coding problems

Jack Keil Wolf International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) Student Paper Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - 2017
Engineers Communications Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Speakers Tour Committee (DSTC) Data Storage Best Paper Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics (IEEE) - 2014
AT&T Key Contributor Award - 2010, 2011, 2013
Liu-Memorial Award, Cornell University - 2004

J. Li, X. Tang, and C. Tian, "A generic transformation for optimal repair bandwidth and rebuilding access in MDS codes," Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Aachen, Germany, Jun. 2017.
C. Tian, B. Sasidharan, V. Aggarwal, V. Vaishampayan, and P. Vijay Kumar, "Layered exact-repair regenerating codes via embedded erasure correction and block designs," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 1933-1947, Apr. 2015.
C. Tian, "Characterizing the rate-region of the (4,3,3) exact-repair regenerating codes," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 967-975, May 2014.
C. Tian, J. Chen, S. N. Diggavi, and S. Shamai, "Optimality and approximate optimality of source-channel separation in networks," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 904-918, Feb. 2014.
C. Tian, S. N. Diggavi, and S. Shamai, "The achievable distortion region of sending a bivariate Gaussian source on the Gaussian broadcast channel," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 57, No. 10, pp. 6419-6427, Oct. 2011