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Hsin-Po Wang （王新博）

助理教授 Assistant Professor
電機系 Dept of EE 電信所 Grad Inst of Comm
台大 National Taiwan University

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Research

My interests are in information theory and coding theory. Works of mine span polar codes (wireless communication), group testing (with many downstream applications including heavy hitter, compressed sensing, and multiple access channels), regenerating codes (cloud storage), distributed matrix multiplication (cloud computation), and DNA digital data storage (archival storage). I specialize in finding applications of algebra, combinatorics, calculus, probability theory, and other mathematical tools to said topics.

I tend to put too many TikZ figures in my papers. Check out the following links for those figures and some comments. See also TikZ TeX Talk for techniques that are too fancy for papers and figure in arXiv abstract.

Education

Employment & Experience

Awards & Honors

Journal Publications & Slides

  1. H.-P. Wang, R. Gabrys, A. Vardy. Tropical Group Testing. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. September 2023. (Preprint.)

  2. H.-P. Wang, T.-C. Lin, A. Vardy, R. Gabrys. Sub-4.7 Scaling Exponent of Polar Codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. July 2023. (Preprint.)

  3. I. Duursma, H.-P. Wang. Multilinear Algebra for Minimum Storage Regenerating Codes: A Generalization of Product-Matrix Construction. Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communication and Computing. October 2021. (Author copy and Preprint.)

  4. I. Duursma, X. Li, H.-P. Wang. Multilinear Algebra for Distributed Storage. SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry (SIAGA). September 2021. (Preprint, a 15-minute video presentation, and slides @ SIAM AG21.)

  5. H.-P. Wang, I. Duursma. Log-logarithmic Time Pruned Polar Coding. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. March 2021. (Preprint and Predecessor.)

  6. H.-P. Wang, I. Duursma. Polar Codes’ Simplicity, Random Codes’ Durability. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. March 2021. (Slides @ NTU and slides @ UIUC and slides @ Princeton.)

Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications & Slides

  1. V. Guruswami, H.-P. Wang. Semirandom Planted Clique via $1$-norm Isometry Property Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO). June 2025, Baltimore, Maryland.

  2. V. Guruswami, H.-P. Wang. Capacity-Achieving Gray Codes. International Conference on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM). August 2024, London, UK. (Timelapse1 and Timelapse2.)

  3. H.-P. Wang, C.-W. Chin. On Counting Subsequences and Higher-Order Fibonacci Numbers. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). July 2024, Athens, Greece. (Preprint and slides and framed slides in a Minecraft map of Acropolis.)

  4. H.-P. Wang, V. Guruswami. Successive Cancellation Sampling Decoder: An Attempt to Analyze List Decoding Theoretically. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). July 2024, Athens, Greece. (Preprint and slides)

  5. H.-P. Wang, V. Guruswami. Isolate and then Identify: Rethinking Adaptive Group Testing. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). July 2024, Athens, Greece. (Preprint.)

  6. H.-P. Wang, R. Gabrys, V. Guruswami. Quickly-Decodable Group Testing with Fewer Tests: Price-Scarlett’s Nonadaptive Splitting with Explicit Scalars. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). June 2023, Taipei, Taiwan. (Preprint and Slides.)

  7. H.-P. Wang, C.-W. Chin. Density Devolution for Ordering Synthetic Channels. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). June 2023, Taipei, Taiwan. (Preprint and 4-in-1 slides.)

  8. T.-C. Lin, H.-P. Wang. Optimal Self-Dual Inequalities to Order Polarized BECs. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). June 2023, Taipei, Taiwan. (Preprint and 4-in-1 slides.)

  9. H.-P. Wang, V. Guruswami. How Many Matrices Should I Prepare to Polarize Channels Optimally Fast?. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). June 2023, Taipei, Taiwan. (Preprint and 4-in-1 slides.)

  10. H.-P. Wang, V.-F. Dragoi. Fast Methods for Ranking Synthetic BECs. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). June 2023, Taipei, Taiwan. (Preprint and 4-in-1 slides.)

  11. I. Duursma, R. Gabrys, V. Guruswami, T.-C. Lin, H.-P. Wang. Accelerating Polarization via Alphabet Extension. International Conference on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM). September 2022, virtual. (Full version and 7-minute animation.)

  12. H.-P. Wang, R. Gabrys, A. Vardy. PCR, Tropical Arithmetic, and Group Testing. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). June 2022, Helsinki, Finland. (Full version and slides.)

Invited Talks & Slides

  1. How to Speak Tensor. International AMS-UMI Joint Meeting. July 2024, Palermo, Italy. (Slides.)

  2. Geno-Weaving: Low-Complexity Capacity-Achieving Data Storage on DNA. Coding Theory and Algorithms for DNA-based Data Storage (ISIT2024 Satellite Workshop). July 2024, Athens, Greece. (Timelapse and slides.)

  3. GenoWeave: Interleaving Polar Codes Across Strands for DNA Data Storage. Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA). February 2024, San Diego, California. (Slides.)

  4. Channel Manipulation as a Coding Technique. Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM). January 2024, San Francisco, California. (Slides.)

  5. Moulin Codes. SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry (AG21). August 2021, virtual. (Slides.)

Community Service

Extracurricular

Vaseman Gallery (Artist = Jau-Pao Wang)

Vaseman is about drawings of people that look like vases.
(Data plan warning: scans of drawings!)

Vaseman standing still, smiling professionally