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Aaron B. Wagner

Department: ECE

Title: Assistant Professor

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Degrees earned:
 B.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1999
 M.S. University of California, Berkeley 2002
 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 2005

Address:
Office:
 331 Rhodes Hall
 Ithaca, New York, 14853

Office Phone: 607-255-1017

Biography:

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell. During the 2005-2006 academic year, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell. I have received the NSF CAREER award, the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize from the U.C. Berkeley EECS Dept., and the Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics from the U.C. Berkeley Dept. of Mathematics.

Research interests:

I study problems at the intersection of information theory and networking. I am particularly interested in the information-theoretic limits of distributed compression with applications to peer-to-peer networks, network information theory, connections between information theory and queueing theory, the role of feedback in communications, and applications of information theory to computational linguistics.

Selected Publications:

Wagner, A. B.; Anantharam, V.. Zero-rate reliability of the exponential-server timing channel. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 51, 447-65 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2004.840876
Wagner, A. B.; Anantharam, V.. "An improved outer bound for the multiterminal source-coding problem" (Adelaide, SA, Australia, 2005), pages: pp. 1406-10.
Wagner, A. B.; Anantharam, V.. "Feedback, queueing, and the reliability of the ideal Poisson channel above capacity" (Chicago, IL, USA, 2004), pages: pp. 447.
Wagner, A. B.; Anantharam, V.. Designing a Contact Process: The Piecewise-Homogenous Process on a Finite Set with Applications. Stochastic Process. Appl. 115, 117-153 (2005).
Wagner, A. B.; Tavildar, S.; Viswanath, P.. "Rate Region of the Quadratic Gaussian Two-Encoder Source-Coding Problem" in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (Seattle, WA, 2006), pages: pp. 29. http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IT/0510095
Wagner, A. B.; Viswanath, P.; Kulkarni, S.R.. "Strong Consistency of the Good-Turing Estimator" in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (Seattle, WA, 2006), pages: pp. 5. http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.IT/0607014