报告人：白铂 高级研究员（华为2012实验室）
时 间：2019年11月11日上午10：00—11：00
地点：华南数学应用与交叉研究中心学术报告厅111
题目：Optimal Transport for Information Theory: Preliminary Thinking
摘要：
Since the original Monge formulation in 1781, the optimal transport (OT) theory has been developed to be a research area with rich results. The successful application of Wasserstein distance in generative adversarial networks (GAN) illustrates the great potential of OT in future science of information. In this report, some important problems in information theory, where some of them are open for decades, are surveyed. It is very surprising that these problems can be formulated as different OT problems. Therefore, we believe the OT formulation provides a different angle to rethink these important problems. Furthermore, these results also illustrate a possibility that the OT may lay a unified foundation for future science of information.
个人简介：
Bo Bai(白铂) received the B.S. degree (Hons.) from the School of Communication Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2010. From 2009 to 2010 and from 2010 to 2012, he was a Research Assistant and a Research Associate with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, respectively. From 2012 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. He is currently a Senior Researcher with the Theory Laboratory, 2012 Labs, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong. He is leading a team to develop fundamental principles, algorithms, and systems for graph deep learning, B5G/6G cell-free networking, and non-linear information theory. He received the Honor of Outstanding Graduates of Shaanxi Province and the Honor of Young Academic Talent of Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University. He obtained support from the Backbone Talents Supporting Project of Tsinghua University. He has authored more than 100 papers in major IEEE/ACM journals and conferences, two book chapters, and one textbook. He is a IEEE Senopr member, USENIX member. He served as a Committee Member in IEEE ComSoc WTC and IEEE ComSoc SPCE. He also served as a TPC member for several IEEE conferences such as ICC, GLOBECOM, WCNC, VTC, and ICCC. He was a recipient of the Student Travel Grant at IEEE GLOBECOM 2009 and the Best Paper Award in IEEE ICC 2016. He is one of the founding Vice Chairs of IEEE TCCN SIG on Social Behavior Driven Cognitive Radio Networks. He served as a TPC Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - 1st AoI Workshop, IEEE ICCC 2018, an Industrial Forum and Exhibition Co-Chair of IEEE HotICN 2018, and IEEE INFOCOM 2019 -2nd AoI Workshop. He served as a reviewer for a number of major IEEE/ACM journals and conferences. He was invited as a Young Scientist Speaker at IEEE TTM 2011.