david t.h. kao
[ dthkao-at-gmail ]
ABOUT
I'm currently at Google Inc.
I received my Ph.D. in May 2012 and my M.S. in May 2008 both in Electrical Engineering from Rice University where I was a part of the Center for Multimedia Communication. I received my B.S. in May 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL
- Blind Index Coding, [preprint]
- D. Kao, M. Maddah-Ali, & A.S. Avestimehr
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appear.
- Linear Degrees of Freedom of the MIMO X-Channel with Delayed CSIT,
- D. Kao & A.S. Avestimehr
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 297--319, Jan. 2017.
- Rover-to-Orbiter Communication in Mars: Taking Advantage of the Varying Topology,
- S. Li, D. Kao, & A.S. Avestimehr
IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 572--585, Feb. 2016.
- Two-user interference channels with local views: On capacity regions of TDM-dominating policies,
- D. Kao & A. Sabharwal
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 7014--7040, Nov. 2013.
CONFERENCE
- Blind index coding,
- D. Kao, M. Maddah-Ali, & A.S. Avestimehr
--- selected for semi-plenary presentation --- .
to appear in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2015.
- Rover-to-orbiter communication in Mars: Taking advantage of the varying Topology,
- S. Li, D. Kao, & A.S. Avestimehr
to appear in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2015.
- Blind index coding over wireless channels: The value of repetition coding,
- D. Kao, M. Maddah-Ali, & A.S. Avestimehr
to appear in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2015.
- How to utilize caching to improve spectral efficiency in device-to-device wireless networks,
- N. Naderializadeh, D. Kao, & A.S. Avestimehr
in Proc. 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2014.
- Align-and-Forward Relaying for Two-hop Erasure Broadcast Channels,
- D. Kao, M. Maddah-Ali, & A.S. Avestimehr
in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2014.
[extended version]
- Linear Degrees of Freedom of the MIMO X-Channel with Delayed CSIT,
- D. Kao & A.S. Avestimehr
in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2014.
- How Local Can a Node's View Be and Still Guarantee Sum-Capacity in Interference Networks?,
- D. Kao
in IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), 2013.
- An Upper Bound on the Capacity of Vector Dirty Paper with Unknown Spin & Stretch,
- D. Kao & A. Sabharwal
in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2013.
- Node Cooperation with Local Views in the Two-User Interference Channel,
- D. Kao & A. Sabharwal
in Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems, 2012.
- Beamforming on Mobile Devices: A First Study,
- H. Yu, L. Zhong, A. Sabharwal, & D. Kao
in Proc. ACM MobiCom, 2011.
- An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness in Wireless Resource Allocation,
- T. Lan, D. Kao, M. Chiang, & A. Sabharwal
in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, 2010.
[extended version]
- Impact of Network Topology Knowledge on Fairness: A Geometric Approach,
- D. Kao & A. Sabharwal
in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, 2009.
THESES
- A matter of perspective: Reliable communication and coping with interference with only local views,
- Ph.D Thesis, 2012
- On fairness in wireless networks under channel uncertainty,
- M.S. Thesis, 2008
PRESENTATIONS/POSTERS/DEMOS
- On Capacity Regions of Interference Channels with Mismatched Local Views,
- D. Kao and A. Sabharwal,
Poster at Winedale Workshop, 2011.
- Beamforming on Mobile Devices: A First Study,
- H. Yu, L. Zhong, A. Sabharwal, and D. Kao,
Demo at ACM Mobicom, 2011.
- How Simple Approaches Can Optimize Scalable Interference Networks,
- D. Kao and A. Sabharwal,
Presentation at ACM S3 Workshop, 2011.
- Impact of Network Topology Knowledge on Fairness: A Geometric Approach,
- D. Kao and A. Sabharwal,
Poster presented at IEEE School of Information Theory, 2009.
- An Axiomatic Theory of Fairness,
- T. Lan, D. Kao, M. Chiang, and A. Sabharwal,
Presentation at the Workshop on The Economics of Networks, Systems, and Computation, NetEcon, 2009.
- Distributed Spectrum Sharing via Graph Coloring,
- D. Kao and A. Sabharwal,
Poster presented at IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, CTW, 2007.