- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Email: chao.tian@tamu.edu
- Office: WEB 301R
- Website: Personal webpage
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University – 2005
- B.E., Electronic Engineering, Tsingua University – 2000
Research Interests
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- Machine learning and reinforcement learning
- Joint source-channel coding and semantic communications
- Coding for privacy, security, and caching
- Computational approach to information-theoretic converses
Awards & Honors
- 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
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer (2023-2024)
- NetApp Faculty Fellowship (2019)