Curriculum Vitae
General Information
Full Name | Wenyuan Zhao |
Contact | wyzhao [at] tamu [dot] edu |
Research Interests | Information Theory, Machine Learning, and Communication |
Languages | English, Chinese |
Education
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2023 -
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University, TX
- Major in Information Science and Learning Systems
- Advised by Prof. Chao Tian
- GPA 4.0/4.0
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2021 - 2023
M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California San Diego, CA
- Major in Communication Theory and Systems
- Advised by Prof. Xinyu Zhang
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2017 - 2021
B.E. in Information Engineering
Southeast University, China
- Major in Information Engineering
- Advised by Prof. Cheng Zhang
Honors and Awards
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2020
- Sun Qingyun Scholarship, Southeast University
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2019
- 1st place in Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)
- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Scholarship, Southeast University
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2018
- Academic Records Scholarship, Southeast University
Experience
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2023 -
Deep Gaussian Process Research Assistant
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
- A sparse expansion for deep Gaussian processes (DGPs) as BNNs
- Interpretability and uncertainty quantification on sparse DGPs
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Software designs and tutorials
- Python and PyTorch based sparse DGP package
- Benchmarks on regression, classification, generative tasks
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2023 - 2024
Coding for Privacy Research Assistant
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
- Code construction for weakly private information retrieval (PIR)
- Optimization for probability allocation of Weakly PIR code
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Heterogeneity in servers trustfulness
- Maximal leakage (Max-L) mutual information (MI) metric
- Sophisticated analysis of underlying convex optimization
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2022 - 2023
mmWave Networking Research Assistant
Center of Wireless Communication, UC San Diego, CA
- RL-driven method for dynammic mmWave mesh configuration
- Bridging the Simulation-to-Reality gap in mmWave interference mapping
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Simulation and testbed evaluation
- A software-defined mmWave mesh network
- A mmWave mesh testbed using MikroTik hardware
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2020 - 2021
Massive MIMO Research Assistant
Southeast University, Nanjing, China
- Precoding algorithms for massive MIMO downlink
- Complex-valued Gradient Neural Network (CVGNN) to solve complex matrices inversion
- Theoretical convergence and computation overhead evaluation of CVGNN
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2019 - 2020
mmWave Research Assistant
Souteast University, Nanjing, China
- mmWave beam alignment and tracking (BA/T) formulation with stochastic bandit learning
- Greedy strategy and upper confidence bound (UCB) strategy for optimal beam searching
Academic Interests
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Information Science and Learning Systems
- Deep Gaussian Process as Neural Networks
- Generative Model and Deep Learning
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Communication Theory and Systems
- Information and Coding Theory
- Wireless Communication