Paul Cuff
Ph.D. Candidate
Advisor: Thomas Cover
Information Systems Lab
Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
cuff (at) stanford (dot) edu
Academic Interests
All things made simple through math
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Short Bio
Paul Cuff is a Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, researching information theory with his advisor Prof. Tom Cover. He received the B.S. degree from Brigham Young University in 2004 and the M.S. degree from Stanford University in 2006, both in Electrical Engineering.
Mr. Cuff was awarded the ISIT 2008 Student Paper Award for his work titled "Communication Requirements for Generating Correlated Random Variables." He is a recipient of the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and the Numerical Technologies Fellowship.
Select Publications
P. Cuff. &ldquoCommunication Requirements for Generating Correlated Random Variables.&rdquo ISIT 2008 (Best Student Paper Award).
H. Permuter, P. Cuff, B. Van Roy, and T. Weissman. &ldquoCapacity of the Trapdoor Channel with Feedback.&rdquo IEEE Trans. on Info. Theory, 54(7):3150-65, July, 2008.
Talks (slides)
Stanford University PhD Oral Exam - “Communication in Networks for Coordinating Behavior.”
ITA (UCSD) 2009 - “Investigating the Fundamental Communication Burden of Cooperation.”
MIT, LIDS 2008 - “The Golden Ratio in Communication - Blackwell’s Trapdoor Channel and Task Assignment.”
Allerton 2008 - “Coordination via Communication.”
ISIT 2008 - “Communication Requirement for Generating Correlated Random Variables.”
School of Information Theory 2008 - “Coordination via Communication.”
BIRS 2007 - “Entropy Rates of Hidden Markov Processes emerge from Blackwell’s Trapdoor Channel.”
ISIT 2007 - “Capacity and Zero-Error Capacity of the Chemical Channel with Feedback.”