Yijia (Richard) Fan

 

 

Postdoc Research Associate
Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University

B311 Engineering Quad, Electrical Engineering, Olden Street, 08544, NJ, USA.

Email: yijiafan@princeton.edu
 

Biography

I finished my B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in June, 2003, and PhD degree in Institute for Digital Communications, University of Edinburgh in March, 2007. My PhD project was fully funded by EPSRC, UK. I'm currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University. My supervisor is Professor H. Vincent Poor.

For more info and personal interests see “others”

Research Interests

For my list of publications please click here.

Here is a talk I recently delivered in Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, NJ. 

List of Publications

Journals

C. Wang, Y. Fan, J. S. Thompson and H. V. Poor, "A comprehensive study of repetition coded protocols in multi-user multi-relay networks", submitted to IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., Sept. 2008.

Y. Fan, C. Wang, H. V. Poor, J. S. Thompson, "Cooperative multiplexing: Toward higher spectral efficiency in multi-antenna relay networks",  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appear, 2009.

Y. Fei, Y. Fan, J. S. Thompson, B. K. Lau, "Optimal single-port matching impedance for capacity maximization in compact MIMO arrays", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagations, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 3566-3575, Nov, 2008.

B. Xia, Y. Fan, J. S. Thompson, H. V. Poor, "Buffering in a three node relay network", IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 7, no. 11, pp. 4492-4496, Nov., 2008.

Y. Fan, A. Adinoyi, J. S. Thompson, H. Yanikomeroglu, and H. V. Poor, "A simple distributed antenna combining approach for cooperative diversity", IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear, Mar., 2009.

F.A. Onat, Y. Fan, H. Yanikomeroglu and J. S. Thompson, "Asymptotic BER analysis of threshold digital relaying schemes in cooperative wireless systems",  IEEE Transactions on wireless communications, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 4938-4947, Dec., 2008.

C. Wang, Y. Fan, J. S. Thompson, "Recovering multiplexing loss through concurrent decode and forward relaying", Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, 22 November 2007, invited paper.

F.A. Onat, A. Adinoyi, Y. Fan, H. Yanikomeroglu, J. S. Thompson, I. D. Marsland, "Threshold selection for SNR-based selective digital relaying in cooperative wireless networks", IEEE Transactions on wireless communications,  vol. 7,
no. 11, pp. 4226–4237, Nov. 2008

Y. Fan, J. S. Thompson, A. B. Adinoyi and H. Yanikomeroglu, "Antenna Combining for Multi-antenna Multi-relay Channels'', European Transactions on Telecommunications,  no. 6, vol. 18, 2007, invited paper.

Y. Fan, C. Wang, J. S. Thompson and H. V. Poor, "Recovering multiplexing loss through successive relaying using simple repetition coding'',  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 4484-4493, Dec. 2007.

Y. Fan and J. S. Thompson, “MIMO Configurations for Relay Channels: Theory and Practice”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 5, March 2007.

J. S. Thompson, P. M. Grant and Y. Fan, “An Introduction to Multi-hop Multi-antenna Communications”, Frequenz (Journal of RF-Engineering and Telecommunications), Vol. 60, Issue 5-6, pp. 103-106, 2006, invited paper.

Conference Papers

    Y. Fan, F. A. Onat, H. Yanikomeroglu and H. V. Poor, "Threshold based distributed detection that achieves full diversity in wireless sensor networks," 2008 Asilomar conference on signals, systems, and computers, Pacific Grove, CA.

    Y. Fan, C. Wang, H. V. Poor and J. S. Thompson, "Cooperative multiplexing in multi-antenna relay networks", Globecom’08, to appear.

F. A. Onat, Y. Fan, H. Yanikomeroglu, and H. V. Poor, "Threshold based relay selection in cooperative wireless networks", Globecom’08, to appear.

L. Lai, Y. Fan and H. V. Poor, "Quickest detection in cognitive radio: A sequential change detection framework,” Globecom’08, to appear.

Y. Fan, L. Lai, E. Erkip and H. V. Poor, "Rateless coding for MIMO block fading channels", ISIT’08, Toronto.

C. Wang, Y. Fan, J. S. Thompson, H. V. Poor, "Superposition-Coded Concurrent Decode-and-Forward Relaying," ISIT’08, Toronto.

F. A. Onat, Y. Fan, H. Yanikomeroglu, and J. S. Thompson, “Asymptotic BER analysis of threshold digital relaying schemes in cooperative wireless systems”,    WCNC’08, Las Vegas, NV. .

    C. Wang, Y. Fan, J. S. Thompson and H. V. Poor, “On the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff of concurrent decode-and-forward relaying”, WCNC’08, Las Vegas, NV.

    Y. Fan, H. V. Poor and J. S. Thompson, "Cooperative multiplexing in a half duplex relay network: Performance and Constraints", 45th Annual Allerton Conference, Sept., 2007, Monticello, IL.

    Y. Fei, Y. Fan and J. S. Thompson, "Optimal single-port impedance matching for compact MIMO arrays", Globecom'07, Washington D. C., USA.

    F.A. Onat, A. Adinoyi, Y. Fan, H. Yanikomeroglu, J. S. Thompson, "On the optimal threshold of digital cooperative relaying  schemes", WCNC’07,     HongKong, China.

Y. Fan, J. S. Thompson, "Recovering multiplexing loss in relay networks", WWRF17, 15-17 Nov. 2006, Heidelberg, Germany.

Y. Fan, J. S. Thompson, A. B. Adinoyi and H. Yanikomeroglu, "On the diversity-multiplexing tradeoff for multi-antenna multi-relay channels",  ICC07, Glasgow, UK.

Y. Fan and J. S. Thompson, " On the Performance of MIMO Spatial Multiplexing Relay Channels",  ICC'07, Glasgow, UK.

Y. Fan, J. S. Thompson, A. B. Adinoyi and H. Yanikomeroglu, "Space Diversity for Multi-antenna Multi-relay Channels",  European Wireless  Conference 2006, April 2 - 5 2006, Athens, Greece.

Y. Fan, J. S. Thompson and M. Naden, ''Relay Configurations for Spatial Multiplexing MIMO Channels'', WWRF15, 08 - 09 December 2005, Paris, France.

Y. Fan and J. S. Thompson, “On the Outage Capacity of MIMO Multihop Networks”, accepted to IEEE Globecom 2005, 28 November - 2 December 2005, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Others

I'm a film person, interested in modern cinema. My favourite western director is Stanley Kubrick. I own a film review site (Chinese) containing my movie reviews. I’m also a fan of Hitchcock and Chaplin. “Vertigo” and “City Lights” are among my favourites. As for contemporary filmmakers, I like movies made by Coen brothers (they really learnt a lot from Hitchcock!). Some of recent Spielberg’s film are also great, such as war of the worlds.

I also love European cinemas, especially those in the old times, e.g., French new wave and Italian neorealism. Later favorite ones include all pieces of  Krzysztof Kieślowski, especially the three-colors trilogy. Note: those are some quite serious pieces of art; you might find them boring if you are looking for some pure entertaining stuff.

I do not have a favourite Chinese director. Some of my favorite Chinese films in recent years includes “In the mood for love”, “Wu Jian Dao aka infernal affairs” (Martin Scorsese remade the film and won several Oscars, but that was not as good as the original one in my opinion), and several films made by Ang Lee and Johnnie To. My favorite Chinese actress is Maggie Cheung.

My favourite film critic is Pauline Kael , here is one of her interesting article entitled “Trash, Art, and the Movies”.

I also love performing arts, such as film and stage acting. I used to perform on stage and won best actor awards in art festival back from college, high school and primary school. Occasionally I served as a model for photographers.

Example: Here is a piece of work with me inside taken in Arthur's seat, Edinburgh. Note: Smoking is bad for your health! A larger and more focused version can be found here (not well ps-ed I would say…).Young people in oriental culture might appreciate the picture a bit more, as they might find the character reflects certain oriental senses of pride and aspiration, desire for the freedom and love of vagabondage, while all of these are share with them.

Here are some links related to my middle school years.

²       High School Affiliated to Fudan University, where I spent three senior high school years. Click here to see a visual English introduction. Click here to visit Fudan University.

²       Hua Luogeng Middle School, named after mathematician Hua Luogeng, where I spent two junior high school years (skipped a grade).