david t.h. kao

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ABOUT

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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.

[resume]      [curriculum vitae]

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.
 

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.
 updated 16-NOV-2016