Dapeng Oliver Wu
Associate Professor
- Office:
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431 Engineering Building
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Department
of Electrical & Computer Engineering
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University
of Florida
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- Mailing Address:
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Department
of Electrical & Computer Engineering
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P.O.Box 116130
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Gainesville, Florida 32611-6130
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- Tel: (352) 392-4954
- Fax: (352) 392-0044
- Email:
wu@ece.ufl.edu
- Homepage:
http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu
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- Secretary Tel: (352) 392-2723
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Education
- Ph. D. in Electrical & Computer
Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, 2003
- M. E. in Electrical Engineering, Beijing University of Posts &
Telecommunications, Beijing, P. R. China, 1997
- B. E. in Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of
Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China, 1990
Here is my short biography, long
curriculum vitae (in PDF), and
academic family.
Research Group
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Wireless Communications
- Video Coding, Image Processing, Computer Vision,
Medical Imaging/Bioimaging
- Explore three basic problems: imaging, compression, image
understanding/interpretation
- Multimedia Communication over the Internet
and over wireless
- Computer and Communication Networks, Queueing Theory
- Information Security (especially, multimedia security) and Network Security
(especially, wireless network security)
- Information Theory
- Communication Theory
- Signal Processing, Detection and Estimation Theory
- Control Theory
- Machine Learning
- Computational
biology
- Theory of Complex Systems,
Complexity Theory
and Network Science (Can we use simple models to describe the
structures, functions, behaviors of complex biological systems? If yes,
how? Can we crack the code of biological systems or even the universe?)
Notice for graduate applicants
seeking research assistantships
Research Projects and Topics
- DeerNet:
wireless sensor networking for wildlife behavior
analysis and interaction modeling
- Effective capacity approach to quality of service provisioning in wireless
networks
- Multiscale geometric
analysis: Ripplet, curvelet, ridgelet, bandelet, wedgelet, contourlet, chirplets, shearlets, noiselets,
wavelet packet, and over-complete wavelet
- Distributed source coding, distributed image/video coding
- Compressed sensing, sparse approximation
- Linear/nonlinear integer transform
- Object tracking
- Change detection
- Object classification and pattern classification
- Video Streaming, IPTV, Mobile TV (p2p video streaming)
- 3D vision
- Text mining
- Biometrics, speaker
recognition
- Digital forensics, authorship identification
- Structure, function, and dynamics of networks (biological networks,
information networks, social networks, economic networks, etc.)
- Network monitoring, network anomaly detection (machine learning approach)
- Distributed congestion control (optimization-based flow control vs. TCP)
- Next generation video coding (computer vision based video coding)
- Software defined radio
- Simulator for Channel Estimation and
Adaptive Equalization in Fading Channels
- Wireless Video
- Bioinformatics
- Performance Analysis and Design of
Burst-frame-based CSMA/CA Protocols
- Jamming, anti-jamming
Alumni
- Dr. Jieyan Fan, Ph.D.,
Employment: Yahoo, USA
- Dr. Jianfeng Wang, Ph.D.,
Employment: Philips Research North America, USA
- Dr. Jing Zhao, Ph.D.
- Dr. Sinisa Todorovic, Ph.D., Employment:
Beckman Institute,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
USA
- Dr. Kejie Lu, Postdoc, Employment:
Assistant Professor at University of Puerto Rico,
Mayagüez
- Ashok Ayyamani, M.S., Employment: Stretch Inc., USA
- Jeremy Anderson (M.S.) continuing Ph.D. study at U.F.
- Ted Belser (M.S.) (Employment: a startup company, USA)
- Deepika Dwivedi (M.S.) (Employment: Extreme Networks, USA)
- James Greco (B.S.) continuing Ph.D. study at U.F.
- Cancan Huang (M.S.) (Employment:
ZTE Corporation, USA)
- Ashish Jain (M.S.)
continuing Ph.D. study at Carnegie Mellon University
- Matthew Koenn (B.S.) continuing
graduate study at U.F.
- Vignesh Krishnan (M.S.) (Employment:
Mathworks, USA)
- Yiran Li (M.S.)
Employment: NXP Semiconductors, USA
- Stuart G. Nielson (M.S.) (Employment:
Raytheon, USA)
- Manasa Raghavan (M.S.) (Employment:
Neurotronics Inc., USA)
- Archana Rao (M.S.)
(Employment: Microsoft, USA)
Teaching
EEL 6562: Image Processing and Computer
Vision, Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Fall 2008
EEL 6509: Wireless
Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2008
EEL 6562: Image Processing and Computer
Vision, Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Fall 2007
EEL 6509: Wireless
Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2007
EEL 6562: Image Processing and Computer
Vision, Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Fall 2006
EEL 6509: Wireless
Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2006
EEL 6562: Image Processing and Computer
Vision, Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Fall 2005
EEL 6509: Wireless
Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Spring 2005
EEL 6935: Multimedia Communications and
Networking, Dept. of ECE, University of Florida, Fall 2004
EEL 6509: Wireless Communications, Dept. of ECE, University of
Florida, Spring 2004
EEL 6935: Special Topics in Multimedia Communications and
Networking, Dept. of ECE, University of Florida,
Fall 2003
Publications
List of publications
List of journal publications according to
topics
List of conference publications according to
topics
Awards and Honors
ONR Young Investigator
Program (YIP) Award, 2008
National Research Council/AFOSR
Summer Faculty Fellowship Award, 2008
NSF Faculty Early Career
Development (CAREER) Award, 2007
National Research Council/AFOSR
Summer Faculty Fellowship Award, 2007
Best Paper Award,
International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless
Networks (QShine 2006)
IEEE CSVT Transactions Best Paper
Award for Year 2001
Certificate
of Appreciation, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile
Radio Communication (PIMRC),
London, UK, Sept. 18-21, 2000.
Professional Activities
Editorship for international
journals
- Founding Editor-in-Chief for
Advances in
Multimedia, July 2006 – present.
- Associate Editor for
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, March 2006 – present.
- Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on
Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Jan. 2006 – present.
- Associate Editor for
IEEE Transactions on
Vehicular Technology, Jan. 2004 – Nov. 2007.
- Associate Editor for
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, INDERSCIENCE,
Sept. 2004 – present.
- Guest Editor for Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
(JVCI),
Special Issue on Network Technologies for Emerging Broadband
Multimedia Services, 2008.
CFP link
- Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC),
Special Issue on Cross-layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Communications,
2006.
- Guest Editor for Special Issue on HETEROGENEOUS
WIRELESS NETWORKS, ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal, 2005.
Organizer or member of
executive committee for international conferences
- Program Co-Chair for International Conference on Communications (ICC
2008), Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, May 19-23, 2008.
- Program Co-Chair for International Conference on Aging, Disability, and
Independence (ICADI 2008),
Research and Development Theme, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, February 20--23,
2008.
- Track Chair, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2007 Fall
conference), Wireless Applications Track, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, October
1--3, 2007.
- Student Travel Grant Chair, IEEE INFOCOM
2007,
Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 6-12, 2007.
- Publicity Chair, IEEE INFOCOM
2007,
Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 6-12, 2007.
- Track Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME
2006), Multimedia Networking Track, Toronto, Canada, July 9--12, 2006.
- Publicity Chair, International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
Conference (IWCMC 2006),
Vancouver, Canada, July 3--6, 2006.
- Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
(CCNC 2006), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
January 7--10, 2006.
- Publicity Co-Chair, First International Conference on Collaborative
Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom
2005), San Jose, California, USA, December 19--21, 2005.
- Student Travel Awards Chair, First International Conference on Security
and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks (SecureComm
2005), Athens, Greece, September 2005.
- Organizer, Special session on mobile and wireless multimedia,
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC
2005), Seoul, Korea,
May 16 - 20, 2005.
- Program Co-Chair
for IEEE/ACM First International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Services and Applications
(BroadWISE 2004), San José, CA,
USA, October 25, 2004.
Member of Technical Program
Committees for international conferences
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IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2009), Wireless Networking
Symposium, Hawaii, USA, November 30 --December 4, 2009.
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IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), Wireless Networking
Symposium,
Dresden, Germany, June 14--18, 2009.
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IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19--25, 2009.
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IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2008), Wireless Networking Symposium,
New Orleans, LA, USA, November 30 --
December 4,
2008.
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IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix,
Arizona, USA, April 13--19, 2008.
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IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom
2007), Wireless Networking Symposium, Washington, D.C., USA, November 26 --
30,
2007.
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The Fourth International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and
Systems (BROADNETS 2007), Wireless Symposium, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA,
September 2007.
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IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, August
26--29, 2007.
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16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS (ICCCN
2007), Emerging Technologies and Standards Track, Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu,
Hawaii, USA, August 13--16, 2007.
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IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC
2007), Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium, Glasgow,
Scotland, UK, June 24--28, 2007.
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IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 6--12, 2007.
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IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, (WCNC 2007), Hong Kong,
March 11--15, 2007.
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IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2006), Wireless
Communications Symposium, San Francisco, CA, USA, November 27 -- December 1,
2006.
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IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS
2006), Vancouver, Canada, October 9 - 12, 2006.
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International Conference on Algorithms, Systems, and Applications of Wireless
Networks (WASA 2006),
August 15--18, 2006, Xi'an, China.
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IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto,
Canada, July 9--12, 2006.
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IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), General Conference,
Istanbul, Turkey, June 11--15, 2006.
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IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2006), May 21--24,
2005, Kos, Greece.
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IEEE INFOCOM 2006,
Barcelona, Spain, April 24-27, 2006.
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IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom
2005), Wireless Communications Symposium,
St. Louis, MO, USA, November 28 – December 2, 2005.
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IEEE/ACM Second International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous
Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine 2005),
Orlando, Florida, USA, August 22--24, 2005.
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IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN'05),
Chania, Island of Crete, Greece,
September 18-21, 2005.
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IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME
2005),
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 6-8, 2005.
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The 2005 International Conference on Parallel
Processing (ICPP-05), Georg
Sverdrups House, University of Oslo, Norway, June 14-17, 2005.
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IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS
2005), May 23-26, 2005, Kobe, Japan.
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IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC
2005), General Conference, Seoul, Korea,
May 16 - 20, 2005.
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IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC
2005),
Multimedia Communication and Home
Networking Symposium, Seoul, Korea,
May 16 - 20, 2005.
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International Workshop on Standardization,
Interoperability and Deployment of Wireless Access Solutions (SID-WAS 2005),
Orlando, Florida, USA, April 21, 2005.
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IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Systems
and Networking (WMSN’05),
Phoenix, Arizona, USA, April 7-9, 2005.
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IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference,
(WCNC
2005), New Orleans, LA, USA, March 13-17, 2005.
- IEEE INFOCOM 2005,
Miami, Florida, USA, March 13-17, 2005.
- IEEE International Packet Video Workshop (PV2004),
Irvine, CA, USA, December 13-14, 2004.
- IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom
2004), General Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, November 29 – December 3, 2004.
- IEEE/ACM First International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Services and
Applications (BroadWISE 2004), San José, CA,
USA, October 25, 2004.
- IEEE/ACM First International Conference on Quality of Service in
Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine
2004), Dallas, Texas, USA, October 18 – 20, 2004.
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
(ICME 2004),
Taipei, Taiwan, June 27 – 30, 2004.
- IEEE International Conference on Communications
(ICC 2004),
Multimedia
Technologies and Services Symposium, Paris, France,
June 20 – 24, 2004.
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IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS
2004), May 23-26, 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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IEEE Workshop on Local and
Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN'04),
Mill Valley, CA, USA, April 25--28, 2004.
- IEEE Wireless Communications and
Networking Conference (WCNC 2004), Atlanta,
GA, USA, March 21 – 25, 2004.
- 2nd International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet
Communications (WWIC 2004), Frankfurt (Oder),
Germany, February 5 – 7, 2004.
- IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference
(CCNC 2004),
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 5 – 8, 2004.
Vice Chair, Mobile and wireless multimedia Interest
Group (MobIG), Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications,
IEEE
Communications Society, July 2004 – present.
Member, EDICS committee for IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
Nov. 2007--present.
Member, Best Paper Award Committee, Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications,
IEEE
Communications Society, July 2004 – present.
Member, Best Paper Award Committee, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia
and Expo (ICME 2006), Toronto, Canada, July 9--12, 2006.
Director of Communications, IEEE Gainesville Section,
Jan. 2004 – Dec. 2005.
Senior Member of
IEEE
Member
of ACM
Member
of American Society for Engineering
Education
Research Sponsors
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
(AFOSR)
Office of Naval Research
(ONR)
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL),
Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio
Florida Institute of Phosphate Research
(FIPR)
Intel Corporation
PCS, Inc.
Narus, Inc.
Stretch, Inc.
Cyber Technology Research Foundation
We would like to thank the following companies for their generous donations:
Intel Corporation
Memorizing a theory does not mean mastering the theory. It is essential
to understand the underlying principles and the insights of the theory.
When the theory looks very natural and logical to you, you are at the stage of
commanding the theory. Then you do not have to forcefully memorize
it at all. A good habit in learning theories is to record and
summarize how you grow from intellectual infancy to intellectual maturity on
each research area. Here (http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu/books/books.html) are the summaries
and references for the subjects of my interests.
Many textbooks present theories from the theorist's perspective, rather
than the user's perspective. The reader is presented with various theories, and
applications of the theories based on a methodological taxonomy. A danger
with this approach of presentation is that the thinking behind the theories
will not be grasped, leading to misuse of the theories. Such presentation
typically does not provide answers to "why does it work?", "under
what condition does it work?", "Compared with other approaches, what
are the pros and cons of this approach?" In textbooks divided on
methodological grounds, the opportunity for comparing alternative methodologies
is diminished, lessening the guidance in method selection. In some sense,
the textbooks teach the reader the dead knowledge but leave the job of method
selection (the thinking) to the reader. The reader needs to spend years on
understanding the trade-off among various methods, and the conditions, under
which a method is more suitable.
A textbook typically follows the deductive reasoning rather than inductive/plausible
reasoning. Such a textbook starts with a rigorous formulation of a
problem, then presents the theories to solve the problem. It seldom
provides the insight and the information about how the theorist came up with the
theory; it rarely discusses about the underlying principle/design philosophy;
and it seldom tries to make the theory natural and logical to the reader (e.g.,
pointing out its similarity to other familiar things, simplifying the
presentation, stressing the key point).
If a textbook is to be presented from the user's perspective, I suggest the
following five steps.
- Exploring the problem and solution spaces. The textbook
should start with plausible reasoning, provide the information about how the
theorist attacked the problem (e.g., try-and-errors examples,
no-brainer/naive approaches, run-of-a-mill/classical approach, advanced
approach), discuss which one works, which one does not work, and why it
works or does not work; after some try and errors, the theorist hit upon an
idea due to some magical reason.
- Developing the theory. The book should address how the
magical idea was developed into the full-blown theory, how the theorist
systematically studied the problem using the new theory (recording all the
thoughts instead of only final version of the theory), and how to make the
theory rigorous. At this stage, the specific problem has been
abstracted to a general problem.
- Presenting the theory (in depth). The book should
present the theory using a deductive reasoning/framework, i.e., formulate
the general problem, present the theory (final version) as a solution,
provide rigorous proofs.
- Discussing related theories (in breadth).
The book should summarize related theories in a concise and clear manner,
address the pros and cons in solving the problem, compare all the theories
in all possible aspects, and discuss the applications of the theories,
significance of the problem and the theories. (People learn
things by comparison.)
- Organize the knowledge around important principles, concepts, and
ideas. Make connections between the new knowledge and the
familiar things. Help the student develop conditionalized knowledge,
which includes a specification of the contexts where the theory is applicable,
and the condition-action pairs required for problem solving. In
other words, help students learn how to organize the knowledge and how to
recognize the patterns of problems and solve them effectively. In
contrast, most textbooks are much more explicit in enumerating the laws of
math or of nature than in saying anything about when these laws are applicable
in solving problems.
The five steps are natural and logical to the reader, and hence is easily
accessible to the reader! The steps are first from the specific to the
general (induction), making it rigorous, and then from the general to the
specific (deduction).
Typically, a textbook only presents final version of the theories, which is not
natural and logical to a beginner. So it is the reader's job to
make the theories logical to himself/herself. This may be achieved by
independent, critical, and creative thinking. Independent thinking
means that the reader should have his/her own views (e.g., trying to solve the
problem by his/her own approach and comparing his/her own approach with the
theory). This is the first cut. Critical thinking means that
the reader should relentlessly attack the theory from all possible angles.
Attack its limitations and weaknesses or even tend to disprove the
theory. Unless the theory is completely justified, do not accept the
theory. After identifying the weaknesses of the theory, the reader is
ready to think creatively. Creative thinking means that the reader
makes efforts to produce something which is not in the book (e.g., insights,
simpler proofs, new theorems). For example, the theory may only
provide the necessary condition but the reader can provide a sufficient
condition. In sum, most readers have comparable intelligence but the
results of the reading (i.e., understanding of the theory and capability of
applying the theory) may be quite different. The difference may be caused
by the degree of curiosity, imagination, and efforts made on independent,
critical, and creative thinking.
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Stories
The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX 2e
Comprehensive TeX
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Oxford
Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
English Dictionary with Voice
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Wikipedia, the free
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Online Reference Dictionary, Thesaurus,
Encyclopedia & more (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryHome.aspx?lextype=2)
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Turing Award
Millennium Prize Problems (Want
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International Mathematical Olympiad
Mottos:
- Be open-minded. Always challenge oneself with intellectually
stimulating problems.
- Pursuing Ph.D. is to push forward the frontier of knowledge and develop
new ways of thinking. For an undergraduate, finishing
programming/simulations, collecting data, and plotting performance figures
are the end of the task. But for a Ph.D., these are not the end.
The final result should be original contributions that are somewhat
surprising to the community of science and technology.
- A Ph.D. in Engineering is expected to apply fundamental approaches to
solving practical problems. It could be application of new approaches
to new/old problems. It could be application of old approaches to new
problems. To achieve this, mastering the related theories is critical.
- Memorizing a theory does not mean mastering the theory. It is essential
to thoroughly understand the underlying principles, the way of thinking and the insights of the theory.
When the theory looks very natural and logical to you, you are at the stage of
commanding the theory. Then you do not have to forcefully memorize
it at all.
- The cornerstone of Ph.D. education is cultivation of independent,
critical, and creative thinking.
- The key to success is keeping yourself motivated. In my view,
long-distance running is an effective way to stay motivated and improve
mental toughness.
- Passion and enthusiasm are the best way for success.
- Insatiable curiosity is a driving force for doing excellent research.
- Put teaching, learning, and understanding ahead of any thought of
impressing colleagues with the esoteric or the obscure.
- A good research paper consists of clean problem formulations, clean
notations, and clean solutions.
- Many practical problems do not have closed-form solution. So
people resort to numerical algorithms or simulations to get solutions.
What distinguishes a good researcher from the rest is not on nice numerical or
simulation results, but on how to analyze (mathematically justify) the results
and provide sound physical interpretation/insight/intuition.
- The hard part of doing research is to be a leader rather than a
follower.
- Give a man a fish, you
feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and he'll take care of himself.
- To some, academia is all about the disinterested pursuit of truth;
another view is that academia is all about politics. People with mature
outlooks fall into the realistic middle between these extremes.
- An important goal of education is to help students develop the learning
strategies needed to acquire new knowledge and skills.
- Life is good. Life will become good if it is not good now. Do
what you like. Like what you do.
- Jogging is a life style. It can improve your health, de-stress your
busy life, release your frustration/anxiety/animosity/fear of uncertainty, and
make you more efficient/optimistic. Jogging may be the best medicine for
many of your problems in your everyday life.
- A way to develop creativity: When you read a book, try to write another
book (which may be as short as one page); the new book may include your new
interpretation about the problem, new angle to look at the problem, new
methods to solve the problem, even new theory to address the problem.
- In system modeling, a model should be accurate enough to be useful and
should be simple enough to be implementable.
Quotations:
The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and
his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and
his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He
simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to
decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both.
Zen Philosophy
The mathematician’s patterns, like the painter’s or the poet’s, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words,
must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent
place in the world for ugly mathematics.
G. H. Hardy
An intelligent problem-solver tries first of all to understand the problem as
fully and as clearly as he can. Yet understanding alone is not enough; he
must concentrate upon the problem, he must desire earnestly to obtain its
solution. If he cannot summon up real desire for solving the problem, he
would do better to leave it alone. The open secret of real success
is to throw your whole personality into your problem.
George Polya
Intellectual courage, intellectual honest, and wise restraint are the moral
qualities of the scientist. (Intellectual courage = dare to
challenge authority; intellectual honest = dare to admit that yourself made a
mistake if you did; wise restraint = do not follow others without some good
reason)
George Polya
By endurance, we conquer.
Ernest H. Shackleton
We may have knowledge of the past and cannot control it; we may control the
future but have no knowledge of it.
Claude E Shannon
There will be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
Paul Erdös
Private property is a nuisance.
Paul Erdös
Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in
my opinion, more interesting than the inventions themselves.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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