Biography

Jinfeng received his B.E degree in Electrical Engineering in 2004 from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China, his M.Sc. degree in Wireless Systems in 2006, Tekn. Lic. degree in Electronics and Computer Systems in 2008, and Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications in 2012, all from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. In 2011, Jinfeng was a visiting Ph.D. student in the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he has been a postdoctoral researcher since Sep. 2013.

Research Interests:

information theory, communication theory, wireless communication, network coding, and multi-carrier communication systems

Education

Aug. 2004-Nov. 2012  Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
            Ph.D. in Telecommunications, Nov. 2012
            Tek. Licentiate in Electronics and Computer Systems, Dec. 2008
            M.Sc in Electrical Engineering, specialized in Wireless Systems, Feb. 2006

Aug. 2011-Dec. 2011   Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
            Visiting PhD student supervised by Prof. Muriel Medard.

Sep. 1999-Jul. 2004    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), China
            B.E in Electronic Information Engineering (Outstanding Graduate Award)

Experience

Jul. 2015- present         Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT, USA

Sep. 2013- Jun. 2015    Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT, USA (also affiliated to KTH via VR PostDoc)

Dec. 2012-Aug. 2013    Postdoctoral Researcher, KTH, Sweden

Aug. 2011-Dec. 2011    Visiting research assistant, MIT, USA

Jun. 2006-Nov. 2012    Research and teaching assistant, KTH, Sweden

Jun. 2005-May 2006    Master Thesis project, KTH, Sweden

Research Projects

Jul. 2014 - present    Capacity of non-coherent wideband fading channels, MIT. Project leader & main researcher.

Nov. 2013 - present    mmWave Communication over relay networks, KTH. Main researcher.

Oct. 2013 - present    Coded transmission with delay constraint, MIT. Project leader & main researcher.

Jul. 2013 - Jun. 2015    Bounding models for wireless networks, Swedish Research Council (VR). Principle Investigator & main researcher.

Jan. 2009 - Jun. 2013    Cooperative communication in networked systems, KTH. Main reseacher. [url]

Jun. 2009 - May 2011    Cooperative communications with network coding for wireless uplink channels, Wireless@KTH. Main researcher. [url]

Sep. 2008 -- Aug. 2011    Crosslayer and multinode cooperation in wireless communications, VINNOVA. Main reseacher. [url]

Jun. 2006 -- Dec. 2008    Next generation FDM systems, Wireless@KTH. Main reseacher. [url]

Publication List

Journal Papers

1. Jinfeng Du, David Adams, Muriel Médard, Christopher Yu, and Naomi Sweeting, “Delay constrained coded transmission over wireless networks,” submitted Mar. 2015.
2. Felipe Gomez-Cuba*, Jinfeng Du*, Muriel Médard, and Elza Erkip, “Unified capacity limit of non-coherent wideband fading channels,” submitted Jan. 2015. (*co-first author) [arXiv:1501.04905]
3. Jinfeng Du, Muriel Médard, Ming Xiao and Mikael Skoglund, “Scalable capacity bounding models for wireless networks,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, accepted for publication (submitted Jan. 2014).[arXiv:1401.4189]
4. Guang Yang, Jinfeng Du, and Ming Xiao, “Maximum throughput path selection with random blockage for indoor 60 GHz relay networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 63, pp.3511--3524, Oct. 2015. [pdf] [IEEE].
5. Jinfeng Du, Ming Xiao, Mikael Skoglund and Muriel Médard, “Wireless multicast relay networks with limited-rate source-conferencing,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications,vol. 31, pp. 1390--1401, Aug. 2013.[pdf][IEEE]
6. Jinfeng Du, Pei Xiao, Jinsong Wu and Qingchun Chen, “Design of isotropic orthogonal transform algorithm-based multicarrier systems with blind channel estimation,” IET Communications, vol. 6, pp. 2695--2704, Nov. 2012. [pdf] [IEEE]
7. Jinfeng Du, Ming Xiao and Mikael Skoglund, “Cooperative Network Coding Strategies for Wireless Relay Networks with Backhaul,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 59, pp.2502--2514, Sep. 2011. [pdf] [IEEE]
8. Jinfeng Du, Erik G. Larsson, Ming Xiao and Mikael Skoglund, “Optimal Symbol-by-Symbol Costa Precoding for a Relay-aided Downlink Channel,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 59, pp.2274--2284, Aug. 2011. [pdf][IEEE]

Conference Papers

1. Jinfeng Du, David Adams, and Muriel Médard, “Cross-layer design of network-coded transmission with a delay constraint,” IEEE SPAWC 2015, Stockholm, Sweden Jun. 2015. [pdf][IEEE]
2. Felipe Gomez-Cuba, Jinfeng Du, Muriel Médard, and Elza Erkip, “Bandwidth occupancy of non-coherent wideband fading channels,” IEEE ISIT 2015, Hong Kong, Jun. 2015. [pdf][IEEE]
3. Jinfeng Du, Naomi Sweeting, David Adams, and Muriel Médard, “Network reduction for coded multiple-hop networks,” IEEE ICC 2015, London, UK, Jun. 2015. [pdf][IEEE]
4. David Adams, Jinfeng Du, Muriel Médard and Christopher Yu, “Delay constrained throughput-reliability tradeoff in network-coded wireless systems,” IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, Austin, TX, Dec. 2014. (finalist for the Best Paper Award) [pdf] [IEEE]
5. Muriel Médard and Jinfeng Du, “Low SNR - when only decoding will do,” IEEE GlobalSIP 2014, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 2014. (invited paper) [pdf] [IEEE]
6. Jinfeng Du, Muriel Médard, Ming Xiao and Mikael Skoglund, “Scalable upper bounding models for wireless networks,” IEEE ISIT 2014, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jun. 2014. [pdf] [IEEE]
7. Jawad Manssour, Jinfeng Du and Ming Xiao, “Network-coding-aware link adaptation for wireless broadcast transmission,” IEEE VTS APWCS 2013, Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 2013. [pdf]
8. Jinfeng Du, Muriel Médard, Ming Xiao and Mikael Skoglund, “Lower bounding models for wireless networks,” IEEE ISIT 2013, Istanbul, Turkey, Jul. 2013. [pdf][IEEE]
9. Jinfeng Du, Ming Xiao, Mikael Skoglund and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), “Short-Message Noisy Network Coding with Partial Source Cooperation,” IEEE ITW 2012, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sep. 2012. [pdf][IEEE]
10. Jinfeng Du, Ming Xiao and Mikael Skoglund, “Capacity Bounds for Backhaul-Supported Wireless Multicast Relay Networks with Cross-Links,” IEEE ICC 2011, Kyoto, Japan, Jun. 2011. [pdf] [IEEE]
11. Jinfeng Du, Ming Xiao and Mikael Skoglund, “Capacity Bounds for Relay-Aided Wireless Multiple Multicast with Backhaul,” WCSP 2010, Suzhou, China, Oct. 2010. (Best Paper Award) [pdf] [IEEE]
12. Jinfeng Du, Ming Xiao and Mikael Skoglund, “Cooperative strategies for relay-aided multi-cell wireless networks with Backhaul,” IEEE ITW 2010, Dublin, Ireland, Aug. 2010. [pdf] [IEEE]
13. Jinfeng Du and Svante Signell, “Novel Preamble-Based Channel Estimation for OFDM/OQAM Systems,” IEEE ICC 2009, Germeny, Jun. 2009. [pdf] [IEEE]
14. Jinfeng Du and Svante Signell, “Pulse Shape Adaptivity in OFDM/OQAM Systems,” ICAIT 2008, ShenZhen, China, Jul. 2008. [pdf] [ACM]
15. Jinfeng Du and Svante Signell, “Comparison of CP-OFDM and OFDM/OQAM in Doubly Dispersive Channels,” FGCN, Jeju Island, Korea, Dec. 2007. [pdf] [IEEE]
16. Jinfeng Du and Svante Signell, “Time Frequency Localization of Pulse Shaping Filters in OFDM/OQAM Systems,” ICICS'07, Singapore, Dec. 2007. [pdf] [IEEE]
17. Jinfeng Du, Erik G. Larsson and Mikael Skoglund, “Costa precoding in one dimension,” IEEE ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, May 2006.  [pdf] [IEEE]

1. Jinfeng Du, “Cooperative strategies in multi-terminal wireless relay networks,” Ph.D. Thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Nov. 2012. [pdf]
2. Jinfeng Du, “Pulse Shape Adaptation and Channel Estimation in Generalised Frequency Division Multiplexing Systems,” Licentiate Thesis, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Dec. 2008. [pdf]
3. Jinfeng Du and Svante Signell, “Classic OFDM Systems and Pulse Shaping OFDM/OQAM Systems,” Technical Report of NGFDM Project, KTH/ICT/ECS, Stockholm, Sweden, February 2007. [pdf]
4. Jinfeng Du, “Modulation for Interference Avoidance on the AWGN Channel,” Master Thesis, KTH/EE, Stockholm, Sweden, February 2006. [pdf]
5. J. Du, A. Schumacher, A. Lindgren, L. Andimeh, and M. Maury, “MIMO 2X(2+2) System with Antenna Selection,” Project Report, KTH/EE, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2005. [pdf] [project URL]

1. Jinfeng Du, “A small tour of information theory,” Part I of a lecture given at ACROPOLIS Winter School, Barcelona, Feb. 14, 2013. [pdf]

Students Thesis/Projects Supervision

1. J. Lin, “Interplay of Network and Channel Coding in Delay Constrained Wireless Transmission,” Summer students project, MIT, USA, Aug 2014.
2. N. Sweeting, “Reduction of Arbitrary Networks: A Heuristic Approach,” RSI project report, MIT, USA, Aug 2014.
3. D. C. Adams, “A Delay-Constrained Cross-Layer Model Using Network Coding,” Master Thesis, MIT, USA, June 2014.
4. X. Ding, “Optimal Decoding of Non-binary Network Codes in Wireless Relay Networks,” Master Thesis, KTH, Sweden, Dec. 2010.

Honors & Awards

    ●      Grant from Ericsson Research Foundation, 2015;
    ●      Finalist for the Best Paper Award, IEEE GLOBECOM 2014;
    ●      Travel scholarship from Alm Foundation, KTH, 2014;
    ●      Travel scholarship from Stiftelsen Signeuls fond, KTH, 2014;
    ●      Grant from Ericsson Research Foundation, 2013;
    ●      Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, 2012; [KTH-news]
    ●      Hans Werthén Grant, from Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science (IVA), 2011;
    ●      Grant from Ericsson Research Foundation, 2011;
    ●      Best Paper Award, IC-WCSP 2010;
    ●      Visiting student fellowship, from John och Karin Engbloms Stipendiefond, KTH, 2010.
    ●      Travel scholarship from Generaldirektör Waldemar Borgquists stipendiefond, KTH, 2010, 2011, and 2012;
    ●      Travel scholarship from Björns stiftelse, KTH, 2009;
    ●      Scholarship for Master's degree projects, KTH/Communication Theory group, 2005;
    ●      Outstanding Bachelor's Thesis Award, USTC, 2004;
    ●      Honor of Outstanding College Graduate, both from USTC (10%) and Anhui Province (3%), 2004;
    ●      Excellent Project Award in Summer Undergraduate Students Research Program, USTC, 2003;
    ●      Outstanding Student Scholarship, USTC, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003;
    ●      Honor of Outstanding Student Leader, USTC, 2001;
    ●      First Prize Award in USTC Chinese Speech Contest, USTC, 2000;

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