About Me

I am currently a full professor in the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, with which I received the Hundred-Talent Program of Hubei, and the East Lake Youth Talent Program Fellowship. I was a post-doctoral researcher with the Communications and Information Theory Chair (CommIT) at Technische Universität Berlin with Prof. Giuseppe Caire, from Sep. 2018 to Aug. 2022. I received the Ph.D. degrees in Communications from Université Paris-Saclay with Prof. Daniela Tuninetti, in 2018, the M.Sc. degree in Communications from Université Paris-Saclay in 2014, and the B.E. degree in Optoelectronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2012. My research interests include information theory, coding techniques, and their applications on wireless communications, distributed storage and computing, privacy and security, machine learning. I am now serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications from Mar. 2024 and an Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Letters from Aug. 2021.

Openings for the fall semester 2024

I am actively looking for motivated graduate and undergraduate students working on information and coding theory, wireless communications, distributed computing, and machine learning. If you are interested, please send me an email with your current CV.

News

(04/2024) Five conference papers accepted by the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (IEEE ISIT).
(03/2024) I started to serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications.
(03/2024) New journal paper “From Torch to Projector: Fundamental Tradeoff of Integrated Sensing and Communications” accepted by IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine (IEEE BITS).
(02/2024) New journal paper “Coded Caching With Private Demands and Caches” published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IEEE TIT).
(12/2023) New journal paper “Placement Delivery Array Construction via Cartesian Product for Coded Caching” published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IEEE TIT).
(11/2023) I got the Young Scientist Award in the 30th Annual Symposium on Chinese Institute of Electronics Information Theory, 2023. I also got the best (only one) paper award and the best presentation award in this conference.
(11/2023) New journal paper “Coded Caching for Two-Dimensional Multi-Access Networks With Cyclic Wrap Around” published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IEEE TIT).
(10/2023) New conference paper “A Novel Scheme for Cache-Aided Multiuser Private Information Retrieval with User-to-User Privacy” presented in the 2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers (Asilomar).
(06/2023) Three papers presented in the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (IEEE ISIT).
(05/2023) New conference paper “GroupSecAgg: Information Theoretic Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys” presented in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC).
(06/2023) New journal paper “On the Fundamental Limits of Coded Caching with Correlated Files of Combinatorial Overlaps” accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IEEE TIT).
(04/2023) I got the Young Scientist Award in the 2023 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (ICCCS).
(04/2023) New conference paper “Secure Aggregation with Uncoded Groupwise Keys Against User Collusion” presented in the 2023 8th International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (ICCCS), 2023, pp. 559-564.
(04/2023) New conference paper “Coded Distributed Computing for Sparse Functions With Structured Support” presented in the IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW 2023, Saint-Malo, France, April 23-28, 2023.
(03/2023) New journal paper “Multiple-antenna Placement Delivery Array for Cache-aided MISO Systems” accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IEEE TIT).
(09/2022) I started my new position as a full-professor in the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science & Technology.

Contact me

E-mail: kai_wan@hust.edu.cn