Biography
Yunnan Wu received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in Nov. 2002 and Jan. 2006, respectively. Since Aug. 2005, he has been a researcher in the Communication and Collaboration Systems group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. He was with Microsoft Research, Asia, from 1999–2001 as a research assistant, with Bell Laboratory, Lucent Technologies, as a summer intern in 2002, and with Microsoft Research, Redmond, as a summer intern in 2003. He also did a summer internship in the Mobile and Embedded Devices division, Microsoft Corporation. Some of his code is being used in Windows Mobile powered smart phones and pocket PCs.
Dr. Wu’s most recent research interests include networking, storage systems, graph theory, information theory, and wireless communications. He received Student Best Paper Awards in the 2000 SPIE and IS&T Visual Communication and Image Processing Conference, and the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. He was a recipient of Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship for 2003—2005.
Since 2003, he has been working actively in the area of network coding. He has published around 30 papers on network coding and his Ph.D. dissertation is on network coding. He has given invited talks on the topic of network coding at IEEE San Diego chapter meeting, Univ. of California, Davis, Univ. of Washington, Texas A&M University, and Bell Labs. He co-organized a special session on network coding in the 40th Annual Conference of Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2006), together with Philip Chou and Kamal Jain at MSR. He also organized a special session on network coding in the 43rd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (Asilomar 2009). He served on the TPC of NetCod 2008 and NetCod 2009, the annual network coding workshop. In 2009, he has served as a program co-chair of the Second Workshop on Wireless Network Coding, in conjunction with IEEE SECON 2009. He has presented tutorials on network coding at IEEE INFOCOM 2007 and ACM SIGMETRICS 2007, together with Philip Chou.