Biography
David Tse received the B.A.Sc. degree in systems design engineering
from University of Waterloo 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 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, the Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2003, the 2009 Frederick Emmons Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, and a Gilbreth Lectureship from the National Academy of Engineering in 2012. He has
given plenary talks at international conferences such as ICASSP in
2006, MobiCom in 2007, CISS in 2008, and ISIT in 2009. 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", which has been used in over 60 institutions around the world.