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PhD in Information Engineering, BEng in Information Engineering, BSc in Mathematics (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Biography

David Ng completed his PhD degree in Information Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2021, under supervision of Prof. Chandra Nair. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Mathematics (2015, first class honours) and Bachelor of Engineering in Information Engineering (2016, first class honours) both from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

For curriculum vitae, click: [ pdf]

Research Interests

  • Network information theory
  • Information inequalities

Publications

Author names are in alphabetical order.

  • M. Costa, A. Gohari, C. Nair and D. Ng, "A proof of the noiseberg conjecture for the Gaussian Z-interference channel," 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Taipei, Taiwan, 2023, pp. 1824-1829. [ IEEE Xplore] [ pdf]
  • C. W. Lau, C. Nair and D. Ng, "A mutual information inequality and some applications," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 6210-6220, October 2023. [ IEEE Xplore] [ pdf]
    • Conference version of the paper:
      K. Lau, C. Nair and D. Ng, "A mutual information inequality and some applications," 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Espoo, Finland, 2022, pp. 951-956. [ IEEE Xplore] [ pdf]
  • D. Ng, "On Gaussian extremizers for the capacity region of the Gaussian interference channel," PhD thesis, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2021. [ CUHK Library] [ pdf]
  • A. Gohari, C. Nair and D. Ng, "An information inequality motivated by the Gaussian Z-interference channel," 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2021, pp. 2744-2749. [ IEEE Xplore] [ pdf]
  • M. Costa, C. Nair, D. Ng and Y. Wang, "On the structure of certain non-convex functionals and the Gaussian Z-interference channel," 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Los Angeles, CA, 2020, pp. 1522-1527. [ IEEE Xplore] [ pdf]
  • J. Körner, C. Nair and D. Ng, "On the size of pairwise-colliding permutations," 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, France, 2019, pp. 2354-2358. [ IEEE Xplore] [ pdf]
  • C. Nair and D. Ng, "Invariance of the Han-Kobayashi region with respect to temporally-correlated Gaussian inputs," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 1372-1374, March 2019. [ IEEE Xplore] [ pdf]
    • A more detailed conference version of the paper:
      C. Nair and D. Ng, "On the scalar Gaussian interference channel," 2018 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, CA, 2018, pp. 1-5. [ IEEE Xplore] [ pdf]
  • M. Costa, C. Nair and D. Ng, "On the Gaussian Z-interference channel," 2017 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San Diego, CA, 2017, pp. 1-15. [ IEEE Xplore] [ pdf]

Contact

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