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 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
and holds the Barber-Gennum Chair in
Information Technology. He received several awards for his
research, including the Josef Raviv Memorial
Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006), the Early Research Award from the
Province of Ontario (2010), and the IBM Faculty Award (2010).
Teaching:
Winter
2012 Network
Information Theory (ECE 735, McMaster)
Winter
2012 Probability and
Stochastic Processes (ECE 705, McMaster)
Winter
2012 Circuits and Systems (EE 2CJ4, McMaster)
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)
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)
Junfeng Feng (M.A.Sc.)
Wenbo Sun (M.A.Sc.)
Shuo Shao (M.A.Sc.)
Qi Shi (M.A.Sc.)
Alumni:
Mingkai Shao (Ph.D., co-supervised with Prof. Xiaolin
Wu), Scalable Multimedia Communication using Network Coding, McMaster
University, 2011.
Min Huang (M.A.Sc., co-supervised with Prof. Kon
Max Wong), Robust Slepian-Wolf Coding Using
Low-Density Graph Codes, McMaster University, 2010.
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:
Co-chair: Information and
Coding Theory Symposium, CHINACOM'08.
Technical Program
Committee: Globecom 2008, ITW 2010 Dublin, WCSP 2010,
CCECE 2011, CWIT 2011, WCSP 2011, ISIT 2012.
Organizer: Workshop on
Information Theory and Wireless Communications (Technical Program).
Organizer: Bergerfest (Workshop Webpage)