Yan Nan Wang

About

I am Dustin, a PhD student at the Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, fortunate to be advised by Chandra Nair. I obtained my bachelor degree (first-class honour) under ELITE stream in Information Engineering from the same university in 2016.

My research interests are in Network Information Theory, Hypercontractivity and related inequalities and Distributed Source Coding. Besides, I like hiking and running.

Since I joined GS as a programmer from Jul2021, I might no longer have enough time to do a thourough and detailed manuscript review. Apologize for rejecting any manuscript review requests, and will let you know once I am back to acadamics :).

Here is a short resume.

Thesis

"Optimization of Some Non-Convex Functionals Arising in Information Theory", June 2021. slides.

Research Work

Authors are all in alphabetical order.

Chandra Nair, Yan Nan Wang, "Evaluating hypercontractivity parameters using Information Measures", presented at the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2016), Barcelona, June 2016. slides.
Chandra Nair, Yan Nan Wang, "Reverse hypercontractivity region for the binary erasure channel", presented at the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2017), Aachen, June 2017. slides
Chandra Nair, Yan Nan Wang, "On optimal weighted-sum rates for the modulo sum problem", presented at the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2020), Los Angeles, June 2020. slides.
Max Costa, Chandra Nair, David Ng and Yan Nan Wang, "On the structure of certain non-convex functionals and the Gaussian Z-interference channel", presented at the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2020), Los Angeles, June 2020. slides.
Michel Ledoux, Chandra Nair and Yan Nan Wang, "Log-convexity of Fisher information along heat flow", manuscript, Jan 2021.
Qinghua (Devon) Ding, Chin Wa (Ken) Lau, Chandra Nair and Yan Nan Wang, "Concavity of output relative entropy for channels with binary inputs", to be presented at the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2021), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, June 2021.slides.

Talks

Evaluation for hypercontractivity and reverse-hypercontractivity parameters for the binary erasure channel by me CSE Theory Lunch Talk(at)CUHK, 11:30 am-12:30 am, Nov 20, 2015, SHB 1021B.
Capacity Upper Bounds for the Relay Channel via Reverse Hypercontractivity by Jingbo Liu and Ayfer Ozgur CSE Theory Lunch Talk(at)CUHK, 11:00 am-12:00 am, Oct 11, 2019, SHB 833.
Log-Convexity of Fisher Information along the Heat Flow by me CSE Theory Lunch Talk(at)CUHK, 11:00 am-12:00 am, May 15, 2020, SHB 801.
Gradient Descent by Nisheeth Vishnoi ITCSC Reading Group(at)CUHK, 10:30 am-11:30 am, July 6, 2020, SHB 801.
Mirror Descent and the Multiplicative Weight Update Method by Nisheeth Vishnoi ITCSC Reading Group(at)CUHK, 10:30 am-11:30 am, July 13, 2020, SHB 801.
An entropy proof of the switching lemma for m-clause DNF by Benjamin Rossman CSE Theory Lunch Talk(at)CUHK, 10:30 am-11:30 am, Nov 13, 2020, SHB 801.
Near log-convexity of measured heat in (discrete) time and consequences by Mert Saglam CSE Theory Lunch Talk(at)CUHK, 10:30 am-11:30 am, May 31, 2021, SHB 801.

Miscellaneous

Postgraduate Course Studied, Teaching Assistance

Contact

Email: dustin.yannan.wang (at) gmail (dot) com
Office: Room 805, 8/F, Ho Sin Hang Engineering Building, CUHK, Hong Kong
Phone: +852 5343 1852