Carri W. Chan

Packard 220, Stanford, CA 94305
Email: cwchan AT stanford DOT edu
Web: http://www.stanford.edu/~cwchan
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About Me

I am a PhD candidate at the Information Systems Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. My research interests are in modeling complex stochastic systems, dynamic optimization, scheduling and queueuing. My earlier work has focused on problems related to packet scheduling for multimedia transmission over wireless networks. I have recently become interested in problems related to health-care operations management. I did my undergraduate studies at MIT.

I am currently TAing MS&E335. Slides to my guest lectures: Workload Dependent Queues and Healthcare queueing.

Publications

Journal Papers:
- C. W. Chan, N. Bambos, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos,Scheduling Algorithms for Broadcasting Media with Multiple Distortion Measures, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications 2009
- C. W. Chan, V. F. Farias Stochastic depletion problems: Effective myopic policies for a class of dynamic optimization problems, Mathematics of Operations Research 2009
- C. W. Chan, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, Multiple Distortion Measures for Packetized Scalable Media, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia 2008.
- A. Dua, C. W. Chan, N. Bambos, J. Apostolopoulos, Channel, deadline, and distortion aware scheduling of video streams over wireless, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications 2007.
Conference Papers:
- C. W. Chan, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, "Multiple Distortion Measures for Video with Temporal Scalability", IEEE ICIP 2008
- C. W. Chan, N. Bambos, J. Singh, "Wireless Network-Assisted Computing", IEEE PIMRC 2008
- C. W. Chan, N. Bambos, S.Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, "Wireless Broadcasting to Diverse Users", IEEE ICC 2008
- C. W. Chan, N. Bambos, S.Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, "Optimal Scheduling of Media Packets with Multiple Distortion Measures", IEEE ICME 2007
- C. W. Chan, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, "Multiple Distortion Measures for Scalable Streaming with JPEG2000", IEEE ICASSP 2007
- C. W. Chan, J. Apostolopoulos, Y. Li, N. Bambos, "Receiver-based Optimization for Video Delivery over Wireless Links", IEEE ICME 2006
- C. Chan, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, "On Optimal Embedded Schedules of JPEG-2000 Packets", IEEE ICIP 2006
- F. Baccelli, N. Bambos, C. Chan, "Optimal Throughput and Routing for Wireless Link Arrays", IEEE INFOCOM 2006
- A. Markopoulou, Y. Li, C. Chan, N. Bambos, "Energy-Efficient Communication in Battery-Constrained Portable Devices", Broadnets 2005
- L.A. Poyneer, K. LaFortune, C. Chan,"Scene-based Wave-front Sensing for Remote Imaging", SPIE Advance Wavefront Controls 2003

Work in Progress

C. W. Chan, V. F. Farias, N. Bambos, G. J. Escobar. Maximizing Throughput of Hospital Intensive Care Units with Patient Readmissions
C. W. Chan, N. Bambos. "Efficiency of Greedy Schedules for Processing of Jobs with Decaying Value". Investigation of the 'efficiency gap' between greedy and optimal stochastic scheduling policies of jobs with values that decay over time; applications in patient scheduling, where delays cause deterioration in patient health and also result in reduced benet from treatment.
C. W. Chan, N. Bambos. "On Stability of Queues with Delay-Dependent Job Processing Times". Investigation of sample-path dynamics of queueing systems, where job service times depend on job waiting times; analysis and characterization of the various stability modes; applications in health-care management, where delays cause deterioration in patient health and, subsequently, the patient requires increased time for hospitalization and treatment.

Academic and Professional Activities

Teaching Assistant:
- Queueing Systems and Processing Networks, MS&E 335.
- Network Architectures and Performance Engineering, EE 384S.
- Introduction to Computer Networks, EE284.
Reviewer for journals:
- Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Reviewer for conferences
- IEEE ICME
- IEEE Packet Video Workshop

Honors and Awards

STMicroelectronics Stanford Graduate Fellowship for graduate studies, Stanford University, 2004-2008.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2006.