Feng Xue's academic page

Feng Xue

Email: fengxueATengineering.uiucDOTedu
Intel Research, Santa Clara, California

[Education]

[Honors and Awards]

[Experience]

[Professional Service]

[Publications]

EDUCATION

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL March 2006

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Advisor: Prof. P. R. Kumar
Dissertation: Design and analysis of wireless networks: connectivity, coverage, and capacity

Institute of Systems Science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China June 2000

M.S. in Control and Operations Research Advisor: Prof. Lei Guo
Dissertation: Towards understanding the capability of feedback in time-varying and sampled-data systems

Shandong University, Jinan, China June 1997

B.S. in Mathematics (with specialty in control)

HONORS AND AWARDS

Robert T. Chien Memorial Award of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for 2005. The award is made annually to a doctoral graduate student who has demonstrated excellence in research.
VODAFONE Fellow of the College of Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for the academic year 2004-2005.
VODAFONE Fellow for the academic year 2003-2004.
DONG Award of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1999.
Excellent Graduate of Shandong University, 1997.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Scientist at Intel Research Santa Clara 3/2006 --

2200 Mission Blvd, Santa Clara, CA
Research area: Advanced cooperation schemes and performance analysis for wireless networks

Research Assistant with Prof. P. R. Kumar 8/2000-2/2006

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
Research area: Performance analysis of wireless networks

Summer intern with Dr. A.J. Ganesh 5/2003-08/2003

Microsoft Research at Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Topic: Modeling & performance analysis of Peer-to-Peer networks

Research Assistant with Prof. Lei Guo 08/1997-06/2000

Institute of Systems Science, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Topic: Control of stochastic and nonlinear systems

TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE

Grader for ECE517 Nonlinear & Adaptive Control

Guest lecturer for ECE559 Topics in Communications: Modeling, Analysis and Design of Wireless Networks

Mentored summer interns in 2007 and 2008, including defining and directing the projects.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

TPC member for IEEE WCNC 2009, IEEE GLOBECOM 2007/2008, WNC^3 2007 (International Workshop on Wireless Networks: communication, cooperation and competition), and IWCMC 2007 (Communication and Information Theory Symposium)

Organizer for the Intel Workshop on Cooperative Communications, April 2007

Reviewer for several academic journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Random Structures and Algorithms, Infocom, IEEE ISIT, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, etc.

PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

F. Xue and P. R. Kumar, ``Scaling Laws for Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks: An Information Theoretic Apporach," in the series of Foundations and Trends in Networking, now Publishers Inc., July 2006.

Wireless communications and wireless networks

F. Xue and J. Shi, ''On the product-determinant-sum of Wishart matrices and its application to wireless networks", submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Dec. 2008.
F. Xue and J. Shi, ''Uplink throughput scaling in dense wireless networks with limited collaboration", the 2008 IEEE Global Communication Conference (Globecom'08).
F. Xue and X. Yang, ''Scheduling and coding for unicast in multiradio systems: The two user case," the 4th Anual International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON), Maui, 2008. (Invited)
C.-H. Liu and F. Xue, ''Network Coding for Two-Way Relaying: Achievable Rate Regions, Sum Rate and Opportunistic Scheduling" the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008) - Communication Theory Symposium.
F. Xue, C.-H. Liu and S. Sandhu, ''MAC-Layer and PHY-Layer Network Coding for Two- Way Relaying: Achievable Rate Regions and Opportunistic Scheduling," the 45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Sep. 2007. (Invited)
F. Xue and S. Sandhu, ''PHY-layer network coding for broadcast channel with side information," the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Lake Tahoe, 2007.
F. Xue and S. Sandhu, ''Cooperation in a half-duplex Gaussian diamond relay channel," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 3806-3814, Vol 53, No. 10, October, 2007.
F. Xue and S. Sandhu, ''Performance of cooperation strategies for a diamond relay network", the 41st Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS07), March 2007.
F. Xue and P. R. Kumar, "On the theta-coverage and connectivity of large random networks," the joint special issue of the IEEE Trans. on Information Theory and the IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking on "Networking and Information Theory", May 2006. [pdf file]
F. Xue and P. R, Kumar, "Angular coverage and connectivity of random geometric graphs," the 13th INFORMS Applied Probability Confrerence, July 6-8, 2005, Ottawa, Canada.
F. Xue, L.-L. Xie and P. R. Kumar, ``The transport capacity of wireless networks over fading channels,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 51, No. 3, March 2005. [pdf file]
F. Xue, L.-L. Xie and P. R. Kumar, ``The transport capacity of wireless networks over fading channels,'' ISIT2004.
Feng Xue and P. R. Kumar, ``The number of neighbors needed for connectivity of wireless networks,'' Wireless Networks, Vol 10, No. 2, pp.169-181, 2004. [pdf file]

Overlay networks

A. J. Ganesh and F. Xue, ``Connectivity and diameter of small-world random graphs," the 12th INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, June 23-25, 2004, Beijing, and the Bernoulli World Congress, July 26-31, 2004, Barcelona.

Control of stochastic system

Feng Xue and Lei Guo, "On limitations of the sampled_data feedback for nonparametric dynamical systems ", Journal of systems science and complexity, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 225-250, July 2002.
Feng Xue and Lei Guo, "Necessary and sufficient conditions for adaptive stabilizability of jump linear systems", Communications in information and systems, Vol.1, No. 2, pp. 205-224, April 2001. [pdf file]
F. Xue, L. Guo and M.Y. Huang, "Towards understanding the capability of adaptation for time-varying systems", Automatica, 37, pp. 1551-1560, 2001. [pdf file]

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