Postdoc @ UC Berkeley
Postdoc @ UC Berkeley, Department of EECS
How to pronounce my name?
Email: a.simple.people@gmail.com
Social media: Instagram / Twitter / StackExchange
Other profiles: dblp / ORCiD / Semantic Scholar
Interests: information theory / coding theory / polar code / distributed system / group testing / application of algebra, combinatorics, and calculus.
For meta-comments of my works categorized by topics, see:
I have once computed, on a supercomputer, the Tutte–Whitney polynomials of Reed–Muller codes of length 64. This GitHub repository keeps the source codes, comments, and results.
Research Fellowship
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Spring 2024
Visitor
Duke University
Winter 2022
(Gave a small talk on distributed matrix multiplication;
slides)
Postdoctoral Scholar in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Supervisor = Venkatesan Guruswami
University of California, Berkeley
October 2022–October 2023
Visitor
National Taiwan University
Summer 2022
Taught a small, short lecture on polar codes.
(Lecture notes.)
Postdoctoral Scholar in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Supervisor = Alexander Vardy
Supervisor += Ryan Gabrys
University of California San Diego
October 2021–September 2022
Visitor
National Center for Theoretical Sciences (國家理論科學研究中心)
Winter 2020
Ph.D in Mathematics
Dissertation
(single-spacing version)
Advisor = Iwan Duursma
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2016–2021
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics
National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學)
2011–2015
Research Assistant Fellowship
Spring 2020
Teacher ranked as excellent by their students
Fall 2019 & Spring 2019 & Spring 2018
Book–Scroll Award (for top 5% GPA)
Fall 2015 & Spring 2014 & Spring 2013 & Fall 2012 & Spring 2012 & Fall 2011
蕭正堂紀念獎學金
(Prof. Cheng-Tang Hsiao Memorial Scholarship)
2014
胡達開先生紀念獎學金
(Prof. Ta-Kai Hu Memorial Scholarship)
2013
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2011 & 2009
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.
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.
T.-C. Lin, H.-P. Wang. Optimal Self-Dual Inequalities to Order Polarized BECs. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2023. (Preprint.)
H.-P. Wang, C.-W. Chin. Density Devolution for Ordering Synthetic Channels. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2023. (Preprint.)
H.-P. Wang, V.-F. Dragoi. Fast Methods for Ranking Synthetic BECs. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2023. (Preprint.)
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. (Full version and animation.)
H.-P. Wang, R. Gabrys, A. Vardy. PCR, Tropical Arithmetic, and Group Testing. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2022. (Full version and slides @ ISIT.)
H.-P. Wang, R. Gabrys, A. Vardy. Tropical Group Testing. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. (Preprint.)
H.-P. Wang, T.-C. Lin, A. Vardy, R. Gabrys. Sub-4.7 Scaling Exponent of Polar Codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. (Preprint.)
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.)
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.)
H.-P. Wang, I. Duursma. Log-logarithmic Time Pruned Polar Coding. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, March 2021. (Preprint and Predecessor.)
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.)
Jury
2022 International Mathematics Competition
2022 International Young Mathematicians Convention
Teaching
in a remote middle-school
as an alternative to the mandatory military service.
2016
TikZ TeX Talk collects some of my ideas for (La)TeX and TikZ.
Oriclip is about binder clip sculptures. (Data plan warning: a lot of photos!)
Vaseman is about drawing people that look like vases. (Data plan warning: scans of drawings!)