David Tse () is the Thomas Kailath and Guanghan Xu Professor of Engineering at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

Education

Tse earned a B.S. in systems design engineering from

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a Public university, public research university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to uptown Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also op ...

in 1989, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

in 1991, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1994. As a postdoctoral student he was a staff member at

AT&T Bell Laboratories Nokia Bell Labs, commonly referred to as ''Bell Labs'', is an American industrial research and development company owned by Finnish technology company Nokia. With headquarters located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Murray Hill, New Jersey, the compa ...

Career

Tse's research at Stanford focuses on

information theory Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification (science), quantification, Data storage, storage, and telecommunications, communication of information. The field was established and formalized by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, ...

and its applications in fields such as

wireless communication Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information (''telecommunication'') between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided med ...

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

, energy and

computational biology Computational biology refers to the use of techniques in computer science, data analysis, mathematical modeling and Computer simulation, computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer sci ...

. He has designed assembly software to handle DNA and RNA sequencing data and was an inventor of the proportional-fair scheduling algorithm for cellular wireless systems. He received the 2017

Claude E. Shannon Award The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was created to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon Lecture at the following ...

. In 2018, he was elected to the

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Honors

* Early Faculty

National Science Foundation CAREER Award The National Science Foundation CAREER award is the most prestigious award presented by the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States Federal Government to support junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through rese ...

, 1998 *

Frederick Emmons Terman Award Frederick Emmons Terman (; June 7, 1900 – December 19, 1982) was an American professor and academic administrator. He was the dean of the school of engineering from 1944 to 1958 and provost from 1955 to 1965 at Stanford University. He is widely ...

from the

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, 2009 * Fellow,

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, 2009 * Gilbreth Lectureship from the

, 2012 * Stephen O. Rice Prize in the Field of Communications Theory, 2013 *

, 2017 * Member,

, inducted 2018 * IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, 2019

Book

* ''Fundamentals of Wireless Communication'' (2005,

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) () – with Pramod Viswanath

References

External links

Personal homepage, Stanford University website

Google Scholar page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tse, David Living people Electrical engineering academics Stanford University School of Engineering faculty Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Fellows of the IEEE MIT School of Engineering alumni University of Waterloo alumni Hong Kong electrical engineers Canadian electrical engineers 21st-century engineers Year of birth missing (living people)