• Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Chao Tian

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University – 2005
  • B.E., Electronic Engineering, Tsingua University – 2000

Research Interests

    • 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)