Joseph Koo Ph.D. Candidate Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Advisors: Professors John Gill and Amin Saberi

Interests and current research:

• Distributed storage systems
• Network coding
• Convex optimization and its applications
• Digital communications

Publications:

• J. C. Koo and J. T. Gill, Scalable constructions of fractional repetition codes in distributed storage systems, 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept. 28 -- 30, 2011, pp. 1366-1373. [PDF] [arXiv] [IEEEXplore]
• J. C. Koo, W. Wu, and J. T. Gill, Delay-rate tradeoff for ergodic interference alignment in the Gaussian case, 48th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept. 29 -- Oct. 1, 2010, pp. 1069-1075. [PDF] [arXiv] [IEEEXplore]
• J. C. Koo and J. T. Gill, Low-complexity non-uniform demand multicast network coding problems, 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept. 30 -- Oct. 2, 2009, pp. 228-235. [PDF] [arXiv] [IEEEXplore]

Teaching:

• Teaching assistant (TA) for EE364B, Convex Optimization II (Spring 2011)
• Teaching assistant (TA) for EE364A, Convex Optimization I (Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Winter 2008)
• Teaching assistant (TA) for EE387, Algebraic Error Control Codes (Autumn 2008)
• Teaching assistant (TA) for CS229, Machine Learning (Autumn 2007)

Work experience:

• Intern at Qualcomm, Corporate Research and Development Division (Summer 2010)
• Intern at BBN Technologies, Advanced Networking Group (Summer 2009)
• Intern at Citadel Investment Group, Portfolio Construction Group (Summer 2008)

Education:

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, January 2012
• M.S., Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, April 2008
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, June 2005
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, June 2003

Last updated: January 2012