Ken's Research

Information Theory and Mathematics Space

Resume

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2020-Present.
    • Advisor: Prof. Chandra Nair
    • Research interests: Network Information Theory, Information Inequality, Non-convex Optimization, Combinatorics
    • Investigate relationship between inequalities in additive combinatorics and information theory.
    • Develop tools for solving families of non-convex optimization problems involving auxiliary random variables and upper concave envelopes.
    • Show uniqueness of local maximizers and develop efficient algorithms for solving certain non-convex optimization problems in information theory.
  • Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016-2020.

Honours and Awards

  • Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, University Grant Committee, 2020-Present.
  • The Charles Kao Top Performance Award, Information Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2020.
  • The Final Year Project Award, Information Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2020.
  • Dean's List, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2017-2020
  • Head's List (Merit), New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016-2020.
  • Dean's List, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016-2017.
  • Honours at Entrance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016.

Industrial Experience

  • Ahsay Systems Corporation Limited, Summer internship, 2019.
    • Provide level-2 support for diagnosing and fixing data corruption issues.
    • Propose an OpenAPI specification to enhance API documentation.
    • Develop Postman scripts for automated API testing.
  • Tin Ka Ping Secondary School, Part-time Technician, 2017-2018
    • Deploy backup servers with RAID 5 configuration and develop automated backup scripts.
    • Design and develop a student information management system in full-stack.

Course Projects

  • A Visual Block Programming Approach for TensorFlow with Google Blockly, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019-2020.
    • Developed for: CocoRobo Ltd., Supervisor: Prof. S. C. Liew.
    • Develop a front-end application that generates machine learning code from an abstract syntax tree (AST) created using Google Blockly.
    • Users can execute the code on the client-side and experience real-time interaction.
  • Scalable Voting System, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019.
    • Develop a scalable voting system by using Docker and Amazon cloud services.
  • Simulation for Queuing in Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2018.
    • Supervisor: Prof. P. Vontobel.
    • Develop a probabilistic model using real-world peer-to-peer storage datasets
    • Implement and compare the performance of different download strategies.
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