Biography
David Tse received the B.A.Sc. degree in systems design engineering from
University of Waterloo, Canada in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees
in electrical engineering from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
in 1991 and 1994 respectively. From 1994 to
1995, he was a postdoctoral member of technical staff at A.T. & T.
Bell Laboratories. Since 1995, he has been at the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences in the University of California at Berkeley,
where he is currently a Professor. He received a 1967 NSERC
4-year graduate fellowship from the government of Canada in 1989, a NSF
CAREER award in 1998, the Best Paper Awards at the Infocom 1998 and
Infocom 2001 conferences,
the Erlang Prize in 2000 from the INFORMS Applied Probability
Society, the IEEE Communications and Information Theory Society Joint
Paper Award in 2001, and the Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2003.
He was the Technical Program co-chair of the International Symposium
on Information Theory in 2004, and was an Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Information Theory from 2001 to 2003. He is a
coauthor, with Pramod Viswanath, of the text "Fundamentals of Wireless
Communication". His research interests are in information theory,
wireless communications and networking.