Wei Kang
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2454 A.V.Williams Building
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
(301) 405-6582
wkang@umd.edu

Education

Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,  University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA,  2003-2008, 
Supervisor: Professor Sennur Ulukus.
M.Eng., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2001-2003,
Supervisor: Professor Benoit Champagne.    
B.Eng., Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, 1997-2001.

Research

My research interests include:
 Publications
    1. W. Kang and S. Ulukus, "Capacity of a Class of Diamond Channels", Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Jul. 2008.
    2. W. Kang and S. Ulukus, "A New Achievability Scheme for the Relay Channel", Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Oct. 2007.
    3. W. Kang and S. Ulukus, "A New Data Processing Inequality and Its Applications in Distributed Source and Channel Coding", Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Nov. 2006.
    4. W. Kang and B. Champagne, "Subspace-based blind channel estimation: generalization and performance analysis", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 1151-1162, Mar. 2005.
  1. W. Kang and S. Ulukus, "Capacity of a Class of Diamond Channels", invited paper,  46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, Sep. 2008.
  2. W. Kang and G. Kramer, "Broadcast Channel with Degraded Source Random Variables and Receiver Side Information", IEEE International Symp. on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Ontario, Canada,  Jul. 2008.
  3. W. Kang and S. Ulukus,"A New Coding Scheme for the Relay Channel", IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Lake Tahoe, California, USA, Sep. 2007.
  4. W. Kang and S. Ulukus, "An Outer Bound for the Multi-terminal Rate-distortion Region", IEEE International Symp. on Information Theory (ISIT), Seattle, Washington, USA, Jul. 2006.
  5. W. Kang and S. Ulukus, "An Outer Bound for Multiple Access Channels with Correlated Sources", 40th Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, New Jersey, USA, Mar. 2006.
  6. W. Kang and S. Ulukus, "A Single-letter Upper Bound for the Sum Rate of Multiple Access Channels with Correlated Sources", invited paper, 39th Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, USA, Oct. 2005.
  7. B. Pelletier, W. Kang and B. Champagne, "Improved Multiuser Blind CCD-based Vector Channel Estimation in Colored Noise", IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. (VTC), Stockholm, Sweden, May 2005.
  8. W. Kang and B. Champagne, "Generalized Blind Subspace Channel Estimation", IEEE Vehicular Technology Conf. (VTC), Orlando, Florida, USA, Oct. 2003.
  9. B. Champagne, W. Kang and H. C. Tam, "Improved Strategy for Adaptive Rank Estimation with Spherical Subspace Trackers", IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Computer Eng. (CCECE), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 2003.
  10. W. Kang and B. Champagne, "A Low-complexity Adaptive Blind Subspace Channel Estimation Algorithm", IEEE Int. Comf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong, China, Apr. 2003.
  1. W. Kang, "Correlation and cooperation in network information theory", Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, Jul. 2008.
  2. W. Kang, "Subspace-based blind channel estimation: generalization, performance analysis and adaptive implementation",  Master of Engineering Thesis,  McGill University, Jul. 2003.

My CV can be found here.