Thursday June 6th, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. Prof. Wing-Kin (Ken) Ma, Chinese University of Hong Kong, will be presenting an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture “MIMO Signalling: Knowing the Classics Can Make a Difference”.
Day & Time: Thursday June 6th, 2019
10:00 a.m. ‐ 11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Prof. Wing-Kin (Ken) Ma
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Organizers: IEEE Signal Processing Chapter Toronto Section
IEEE Communications Chapter Toronto Section
Location: Room BA-2135, University of Toronto
http://map.utoronto.ca/building/080
Contact: Mehrnaz Shokrollahi, Yashodhan Athavale, Michael Zara,
Abstract: In this talk the speaker will share two stories of how his research was benefitted by learning from the basics. The first story concerns physical-layer multicasting, a topic that has been dominated bybeamforming and optimization techniques. We will see how the classical concept of using channel coding to fight fast fading effects gives spark to rethink multicasting, and how that leads to a stochastic beamforming approach that goes beyond what beamforming achieves. The second story considers one-bit massive MIMO precoding, an emerging and challengingtopic. Current research on this topic mostly focuses on optimization, often in a sophisticated, if not complicated, manner. We will see how the traditional idea of Sigma-Delta modulation for DAC of temporal signals can be transferred to the spatial case, leading to one-bit massive MIMO precoding solutions that are simple and have quantization error well under control.
Biography: Wing-Kin (Ken) Ma is a Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests lie in signal processing, optimization and communications. His mostrecent research focuses on two distinct topics, namely, structured matrix factorization for data science and remote sensing, and MIMO transceiver design and optimization. Dr. Ma is active in the Signal Processing Society. He served as editors of several journals, e.g.,Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Lead Guest Editor of a special issue in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, to name a few. He is currently a member of the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (SPCOM) Technical Committee. He received Research Excellence Award 2013– 2014 by CUHK, the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award, and the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Best Paper Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and is currently an IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer.