Jun Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University
Email: junchen at ece dot mcmaster dot ca
Phone: (905) 525-9140 Ext. 20163
Fax: (905) 521-2922
Biography:
Jun Chen received the B.S. degree with honors in Electronic Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University in 2004 and 2006, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2005 to 2006, and a Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 2006 to 2007. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster University. He holds the Barber-Gennum Chair in Information Technology.
Teaching:
Fall 2009
Fundamentals of Wireless
Communications (ECE 738, McMaster)
Fall 2009
Digital Communication Systems
(EE 4TK4, McMaster)
Fall 2008 Mathematics for Linear Systems (EE 3CK3, McMaster)
Winter 2008 Network Information Theory and Wireless Communications (McMaster)
Fall 2007 A Random Walk in Information Theory, Combinatorial Optimization, and Statistical Physics (McMaster)
Fall 2005 Information Theory (ECE 563, UIUC)
Spring 2005 Multiuser Information Theory and Wireless Communications (ECE 795, Cornell)
Students:
Lin Song (Ph.D.)
Jihai Cao (Ph.D., co-supervised with Prof. Steve Hranilovic)
Mingkai Shao (Ph.D., co-supervised with Prof. Xiaolin Wu)
Min Huang (M.A.Sc., co-supervised with Prof. Kon Max Wong)
Alumni:
Zhibin
Sun (M.A.Sc., co-supervised with Prof. Kon Max Wong), Applications of Low
Density Graph Codes in Two Source Coding Problems,
Research Interests:
Information and Coding Theory Wireless Communications Multimedia Communications Signal and Image Processing Data Compression and Storage Networking
Publications:
Patents and Standards Contributions
Professional Activities:
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Communications Letters, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, IET Communications, Tsinghua Science and Technology, and Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A.
Co-chair, Information and Coding Theory Symposium, CHINACOM'08.
Technical Program Committee, Globecom 2008.
Organizer, Workshop on Information Theory and Wireless Communications (Technical Program)