Aaron Wagner Assistant Professor School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Cornell University 331 Frank H.T. Rhodes Hall 607-255-1017 607-255-9072 (fax) wagner at ece dot cornell dot edu

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About Me

I have received a number of awards for my research including the NSF CAREER award (2007), the David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize from the U.C. Berkeley EECS Dept. (2006), and the Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics from the U.C. Berkeley Dept. of Mathematics (2005).

I research information theory, networking, communications, and compression. My particular interests include the information-theoretic limits of distributed compression, network information theory, connections between information theory and queueing theory, the role of feedback in communications, and applications of information theory to computational linguistics.

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Research Group

Ebad Ahmed

Md Saifur Rahman

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Publications

Network Source Coding

A. B. Wagner, S. Tavildar, and P. Viswanath, "The Rate Region of the Quadratic Gaussian Two-Encoder Source-Coding Problem." IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, to appear. arXiv:cs.IT/0510095

A. B. Wagner, S. Tavildar, and P. Viswanath, "Rate Region of the Quadratic Gaussian Two-Encoder Source-Coding Problem" ISIT 2006, pp. 1404-1408

S. Tavildar, P. Viswanath, and A. B. Wagner, "The Gaussian Many-Help-One Distributed Source Coding Problem," 2006 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Oct., 2006, pp. 596-600.

A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "An Improved Outer Bound for the Multiterminal Source Coding Problem," IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, to appear. arXiv:cs.IT/0511103

A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "An Improved Outer Bound for the Multiterminal Source Coding Problem," ISIT 2005, pp. 1406-1410.

B. Kelly and A. B. Wagner, "Error Exponents and Test Channel Optimization for the Wyner-Ziv Problem,'' Proc. 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 2007.

Large-Alphabet Information Theory and Computational Linguistics

A. B. Wagner, P. Viswanath, and S. R. Kulkarni, "Strong Consistency of the Good-Turing Estimator," ISIT 2006, pp. 2526-2530 arXiv:cs/0607014v1

Timing and Point Process Channels

A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "Zero-rate reliability of the exponential-server timing channel," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, Vol. 51, No. 2, Feb. 2005, pp. 447-465.

A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "Feedback, queueing, and the reliability of the ideal Poisson channel above capacity," ISIT 2004, p. 447.

A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "A pairwise error probability bound for the exponential-server timing channel," ICC 2003, pp. 3472-3476.

A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "On the zero-rate error exponent of the exponential-server timing channel," Proc. 40th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 2002.

A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "Information theory of covert timing channels," Proceedings of the 2005 NATO/ASI Workshop on Network Security and Intrusion Detection (to appear). Preprint

Interacting Particle Systems

A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "Designing a contact process: The piecewise-homogeneous process on a finite set with applications," Stochastic Process. Appl., vol. 115, no. 1, pp. 117-153, Jan. 2005.

A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "Wireless sensor network design via interacting particles," Proc. 40th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 2002 (Invited Paper).

A. B. Wagner and V. Anantharam, "Designing an interacting particle system: optimization of the piecewise-homogeneous contact process," Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Paper no. 153, Mar. 2002.

Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Control (Old)

S. Ruegsegger, A. Wagner, J. Freudenberg, and D. Grimard, "Feedforward control for reduced run-to-run variation in microelectronics manufacturing," IEEE Trans. Semiconduct. Manufact., vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 493-502, Nov. 1999.

A. B. Wagner, S. M. Ruegsegger, J. S. Freudenberg, and D. S. Grimard, "Interprocess run-to-run feedforward control for wafer patterning," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, pp. 789-795, Aug. 1999. (Invited Paper)

S. Ruegsegger, A. Wagner, J. Freudenberg, and D. Grimard, "Feedforward recipe selection control design software," in Process, Equipment, and Materials Control in Integrated Circuit Manufacturing IV, vol. 3507, pp. 69-80, Sept. 1998.

S. Ruegsegger, A. Wagner, J. Freudenberg, and D. Grimard, "Optimal feedforward recipe adjustment for CD control in semiconductor patterning," International Conference on Characterization and Metrology for ULSI Technology, Mar. 1998.