Office Phone
765-494-5568
Education
B.S. in electrical engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1999
M.A. in electrical engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2002
Ph.D. in electrical engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2005
Prior Appointments
Professor 2017-present
Associate Professor: 2012-2017.
Assistant Professor: 2006-2012
Research Areas
Network coding: Graph-theoretic capacity characterization of inter-session network coding, algorithmic applications of network coding, Shannon capacity characterization of wireless network coding, network coded feedback, and network-coding protocol design and implementation.
Coding Theory: Iterative decoding algorithms, low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes, multi-phase multi-level codes, soft decoding algorithm for Reed-Solomon codes.
Information and Communication Theory: Multi-user detection using graph-based BP algorithms, dirty paper codes, and network information theory.
Signal Processing: turbo equalization and space time codes.
Control Theory: Optimal stopping theory.
Notable Awards
President's Awards, National Taiwan University, 1995 - 1999
B.E. with Highest Honors, National Taiwan University, 1999
Francis Upton Fellowship, Princeton University, 2000 - 2004
Wallace Memorial Fellowship, Princeton University, 2004 – 2005
National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development
(CAREER) Award, 2009.
Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award, School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2011.
The Motorola Award for Excellence in Teaching, School of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2012.
The Motorola Award for Excellence in Teaching, School of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 2021.
ECE Outstanding Mentor of Engineering Graduate Students Award for
academic year 2021-2022
Biography
Chih-Chun Wang is a Professor of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Purdue University. He received the B.E. degree in E.E. from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan in 1999, the M.S. degree in E.E., the Ph.D. degree in E.E. from Princeton University in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He worked in Comtrend Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan, as a design engineer in 2000 and spent the summer of 2004 with Flarion Technologies, New Jersey. In 2005, he held a post-doctoral researcher position in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Princeton University. He joined Purdue University in 2006, and became a Professor in 2017. He is currently a senior member of IEEE and served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory during 2014 to 2017. He served as the technical co-chair of the 2017 IEEE Information Theory Workshop. His current research interests are in the latency 5G wireless networks and the corresponding protocol design, information theory, network coding, and cyber-physical systems. Other research interests of his fall in the general areas of networking, optimal control, information theory, detection theory, and coding theory.
