6GWFF 2021 - Learning to Beamform and to Reflect (Session 4) - Wei Yu

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Speaker: Wei Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Bio: Wei Yu received the B.A.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1997 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1998 and 2002, respectively. He is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Toronto, where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Theory and Wireless Communications. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. He received the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications in 2019, the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication in 2019, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2017 and 2008, and the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2015. He is currently the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society.