Edmund M. Yeh

      ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING   

    NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY  

 

 

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(617) 373-5400

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(617) 373-8970

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eyeh [at] ece.neu.edu

EDMUND M. YEH


Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University

 

News:

  • Prof. Yeh receives Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation[announcement]
  • Prof. Yeh serves as member of the Steering Committee for IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm).  [conference website]
  • Prof. Yeh presents new study on large-scale blackouts in the power grid at DIMACS Smart Grid Workshop, October 25-27, 2010.  [slides]  [program]
  • Prof. Yeh delivers lecture on “Network Science: Information Spread, Epidemics, Mobility and Cascading Failures” at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Shanghai, China, December 15, 2009.  [slides]
  • Prof. Yeh’s research featured in Yale SEAS news article “Network Science: From Wireless Communication to H1N1 and Cascading Power Failures.”  [article]
  • Prof. Yeh serves as General Co-chair for the Sixth Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks (SpaSWiN), 2010, Avignon, France[website]
  • Prof. Yeh invited to attend the National Science Foundation Future Internet Architecture Summit, October 12-15, 2009.
  • Prof. Yeh receives National Science Foundation NeTS grant “Large Scale Networks and Information Flow: From Emergent Behavior to Algorithm Design,” jointly with Prof. Massimo Franceschetti of UCSD (2009-2012).
  • Prof. Yeh receives Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant “Connectivity and Resilience in Large-Scale Mobile Wireless Networks” (2009-2012).
  • Prof. Yeh delivers the Yung Wing Lecture “The Science of Information Networks” at Peking University, October 2007. [slides]
  • Prof. Yeh receives National Science Foundation Cyber Trust grant “Percolation Processes and the Design of Highly Resilient Wireless Networks" (2007-2010).
  • Prof. Yeh receives Army Research Office grant “Analysis and Design of Highly Resilient Wireless and Sensor Networks" (2007-2010).
  • Prof. Yeh receives National Science Foundation NeTS-NBD grant “Distributed Algorithms for Optimal Control of Mobile Wireless Networks” (2006-2009).
  • Prof. Yeh receives Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) grant “Theory, Design, and Algorithms for Optimal Control of Wireless Networks” (2006-2008).
  • Prof. Yeh wins the Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award (2003).
  • Prof. Yeh receives National Science Foundation (NSF) Information Technology Research (ITR) grant “Fundamental Performance Trade-offs for Ad Hoc Networks,” jointly with Prof. Randall Berry of Northwestern University (2003-2007). 

 

New papers:

  • "Cascading Link Failure in the Power Grid: A Percolation-Based Analysis." To appear in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Smart Grid Communications, June 5, 2011, Kyoto, Japan.  [arXiv]

 

  • "Resilience to Degree-dependent and Cascading Node Failures in Random Geometric Networks."  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 56, No. 11, November 2010, pp. 5533-5546.  [PDF]

 

  • "Polar Codes for the Two-user Multiple-access Channel."  Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.  [arXiv]
  • "Coding for the Deterministic Network Model."  Proceedings of the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and ComputingMonticello, IL, September 29-October 1, 2010.  [PDF]  
  • "Coding Improves the Throughput-Delay Trade-off in Mobile Wireless Networks." To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.  [PDF]
  • "Connectivity and Information Dissemination in Large-scale Wireless Networks with Dynamic Links." Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.  [PDF]
  • "Mechanism Design with Limited Information: The Case of Nonlinear Pricing."  To appear in Proceedings of International ICST Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets), April 16-18. 2011, Shanghai, China [SSRN]
  • "The Impact of Incomplete Information on Games in Parallel Relay Networks."  Submitted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Special Issue on Game Theory in Wireless Communications.  [PDF]

 

Professional Interests:

  • Future internet architecture
  • Smart power grids
  • Network science
  • Network information theory and coding
  • Network economics
  • Cross-layer wireless network design

 

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