Yingbin Liang

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University

Office: CST 4-189
Email: yliang06@syr.edu

Basic Information

Short Biography

Dr. Yingbin Liang received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. In 2005-2007, she was working as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 2008-2009, she was an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii. Since December 2009, she has been an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Syracuse University. Dr. Liang's research interests include communications, wireless networks, information theory, and machine learning.

Dr. Liang was a Vodafone Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during 2003-2005, and received the Vodafone-U.S. Foundation Fellows Initiative Research Merit Award in 2005. She also received the M. E. Van Valkenburg Graduate Research Award from the ECE department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2005. In 2009, she received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and the State of Hawaii Governor Innovation Award.

Courses Teaching This Semester

Research Interests

My research aims at developing physical layer (PHY) innovations for enhancing reliability and security for wireless communications, analyzing the impact of these technologies on the fundamental performance limits of wireless networks, and applying novel machine learning techniques for designing efficient decision making algorithms for wireless networks. Such research work is accomplished by applying mathematical tools in information theory, probability theory, optimization, and statistical learning theory.

Some specific topics are: Nonparametric decentralized detection, information theoretic security, information security over mobile ad hoc networks, network information theory, state-dependent networks, analysis of Poisson channels, relay and user-cooperative networks, and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications.

Publications

  • Representative Publications:

    Y. Liang, H. V. Poor, S. Shamai (Shitz).
    "Information Theoretic Security"
    Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, vol 5, nos 4-5, pp 355-580, Now Publishers, Hanover, MA, USA, 2008.

    Y. Liang, H. V. Poor, L. Ying.
    "Secrecy throughput of MANETs under passive and active attacks,"
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, submitted, May 2010.

    Y. Liang, L. Lai, J. Halloran
    "Distributed cognitive radio network management via algorithms in probabilistic graphical models,"
    IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 29, no. 2, pp 338-348, Feb. 2011.

    Y. Liang, A. Somekh-Baruch, H. V. Poor, S. Shamai (Shitz) and S. Verdu.
    "Capacity of cognitive interference channels with and without secrecy,"
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 55(2) 604-619, Feb. 2009.

    Y. Liang, H. V. Poor and S. Shamai (Shitz).
    "Secure communication over fading channels,"
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue on Information Theoretic Security, 54(6), 2470-2492, June 2008.

    Y. Liang and H. V. Poor.
    "Multiple access channels with confidential messages,"
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 54(3), 976-1002, March 2008.

    Y. Liang and G. Kramer.
    "Rate regions for relay broadcast channels,"
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Special Issue on Models, Theory and Codes for Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks, 53(10), 3517-3535, Oct. 2007.

    Y. Liang and V. V. Veeravalli.
    "Capacity of noncoherent time-selective Rayleigh fading channels,"
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 50(12), 3095-3110, Dec. 2004.

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