David Tse is the Thomas Kailath and Guanghan Xu Professor of Engineering at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
.
Education
Tse earned a B.S. in systems design engineering from
University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of three cities in the Regional Municipality ...
in 1989, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
in 1991, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1994.
As a postdoctoral student he was a staff member at
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984),
then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996)
and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007),
is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...
.
Career
Tse's research at Stanford focuses on
information theory
Information theory is the scientific study of the quantification (science), quantification, computer data storage, storage, and telecommunication, communication of information. The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist a ...
and its applications in fields such as
wireless communication
Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided medium for the transfer. The most ...
,
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence.
Machine ...
, energy and
computational biology
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.
He has designed assembly software to handle DNA and RNA sequencing data and was an inventor of the proportional-fair scheduling algorithm for cellular wireless systems.
He received the 2017
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was created to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon Lecture at the following ...
.
In 2018, he was elected to the
National Academy of Engineering
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.
Honors
* Early Faculty
National Science Foundation CAREER Award
The National Science Foundation CAREER awards, presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF), are in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors i ...
, 1998
*
Frederick Emmons Terman Award
Frederick Emmons Terman (; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor and academic administrator. He was the dean of the school of engineering from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanford University. He is widely ...
from the
American Society for Engineering Education
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, 2009
* Fellow,
IEEE
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, 2009
* Gilbreth Lectureship from the
National Academy of Engineering
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, 2012
* Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory, 2013
*
Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was created to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon Lecture at the following ...
, 2017
* Member,
National Academy of Engineering
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, inducted 2018
*
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal is presented annually to up to three persons, for outstanding achievements in information sciences, information systems and information technology. The recipients receive a gold medal, together with a replica in ...
, 2019
Book
* ''Fundamentals of Wireless Communication'' (2005,
Cambridge University Press
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A university press is an academic publishing hou ...
) ()
– with
Pramod Viswanath Pramod Viswanath is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 ''for contributions to the theory ...
References
External links
Personal homepage, Stanford University websiteGoogle Scholar page
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Living people
Electrical engineering academics
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellow Members of the IEEE
MIT School of Engineering alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
Hong Kong electrical engineers
Canadian electrical engineers
21st-century engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)