Nan Liu


Postdoctoral Scholar
Wireless Systems Lab, Stanford University

Packard 340
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

Phone: 650-724-4796
Email: nanliu AT stanford DOT edu

Biography

Nan Liu received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, P. R. China in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, MD in 2007.  Since September 2007, she is a postdoctoral scholar in the Wireless Systems Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Her research interests are in network information theory for wireless networks and wireless communication theory.

Research Interests

Publications

Journal Publications:

  1. N. Liu and A. Goldsmith, "Capacity Regions and Bounds for a Class of Z-interference Channel", IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, submitted May 2008.
  2. S. Shafiee, N. Liu and S. Ulukus, Towards the Secrecy Capacity of the Gaussian MIMO Wire-tap Channel: The 2-2-1 Channel, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, submitted September 2007.
  3. N. Liu and S. Ulukus, The Capacity Region of a Class of Discrete Degraded Interference Channels, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, submitted, October, 2006.
  4. N. Liu and S. Ulukus, Scaling Laws for Dense Gaussian Sensor Networks and the Order Optimality of Separation, IEEE Trans. on Information Theory,  53(10): 3654-3676, October 2007.
  5. N. Liu and S. Ulukus, Capacity Region and Optimum Power Control Strategies for Fading Gaussian Multiple Access Channels with Common Data, IEEE Trans. on Communications, 54(10):1815-1826, October 2006.

Conference Publications:

  1. N. Liu, D. Gunduz, A. Goldsmith and H. V. Poor, Interference Channels with Correlated Receiver Side Information, submitted to 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, July 2008.
  2. I. Maric, N. Liu and A. Goldsmith, Encoding Against Codebooks, submitted to 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, July 2008.
  3. N. Liu and A. Goldsmith, Superposition Encoding and Partial Decoding is Optimal for a Class of Z-interference Channels, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, July 2008.
  4. N. Liu and S. Ulukus, The Capacity Region of a Class of Discrete Degraded Interference Channels, 44th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2006.
  5. N. Liu and S. Ulukus, Optimal Distortion-Power Tradeoffs in Gaussian Sensor Networks, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, WA, July 2006.
  6. N. Liu and S. Ulukus, Optimal Distortion-Power Tradeoffs in Sensor Networks: Gauss-Markov Random Processes, IEEE International Conference on Communications, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006.
  7. N. Liu and S. Ulukus, On the Capacity Region of the Gaussian Z-channel, IEEE Global Communications Conference, Dallas, TX, November 2004.
  8. N. Liu and S. Ulukus, Ergodic Capacity Region of Fading Gaussian Multiple Access Channels with Common Data, 42nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2004.
Ph.D. Dissertation:
          N. Liu, Capacity Results for Wireless Networks: Effects of Correlation, Cooperation, and Interference, Dept. of ECE, University of Maryland,  July 2007.


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