Title: On Soft Decision Decoding

Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2001

Time: 3:30pm to 4:30pm

Venue: Room 3416 (Phase I, via lift nos. 17/18) HKUST

Abstract:
The talk begins with a discussion on the relationship between Shannon limit and channel coding. Then an outline of the development on soft decision decoding will be given. The turbo codes, low-density parity check codes (LDPC) and tornado codes are also discussed. Finally some open problems will be presented.

Biography:
Professor Wang graduated from Xidian University in 1960. He was a lecturer at Xidian University from 1978 to 1983, and an associate professor from 1983 to 1986, and a professor of information engineering since 1986. His main research interests are in information theory, error correcting codes, digital communication, and cryptography. He has authored five books in the area of coding theory and cryptography. He is a fellow of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.