Yunnan Wu

Yunnan Wu received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in June 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.

Dr. Wu's most recent research interests include networking, graph theory, information theory, and wireless communications. Since 2003, he has been working actively in the area of network coding. He has written more than 10 research 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 Univ. of California, Davis, Univ. of Washington, Texas A&M University, and Bell Labs. Recently he has been co-organizing a special session on network coding in the 40th Annual Conference of Information Sciences and Systems, together with Philip Chou and Kamal Jain at MSR.

Dr. Wu received the Best Student Paper Award in the 2000 SPIE and IS&T Visual Communication and Image Processing Conference, and the Student Paper Award in the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. He was a recipient of Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship for 2003-2005.