Ao Tang

A. Kevin Tang

Professor of ECE, Cornell University

337 Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall
School of ECE, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Email: atang at ece dot cornell dot edu
Phone: 607-255-4803, FAX: 607-255-9072

Administrative Assistant: Kimberly Budd, 314 Rhodes Hall, kj37 at cornell dot edu, 607-255-4643

I teach in the School of ECE at Cornell (Research Group).

Courses Taught:

ECE 3100 Introduction to Probability and Inference for Random Signals and Systems
ECE 4450 Computer Networks and Telecommunications
ECE 4800 Optimal Systems Analysis and Design
ECE 5800 Control and Optimization of Information Networks
ECE 6960 Interplay between Economics and Systems
ECE 6990 Advanced Computer Networking

Recent Papers:

J. Cheng, A. Tang and S. Chinchali, "Task-aware Privacy Preservation for Multi-dimensional Data", ICML 2022.
J. Cheng, M. Pavone, S. Katti, S. Chinchali, and A. Tang, "Data Sharing and Compression for Cooperative Networked Control", NeurIPS 2021.
S. Tseng, S. Agarwal, R. Agarwal, H. Ballani and A. Tang, "CodedBulk: Inter-Datacenter Bulk Transfers using Network Coding", NSDI 2021.
Y. Bi and A. Tang, "Duality Gap Estimation via A Refined Shapley-Folkman Lemma", SIAM Journal on Optimization, 30(2): 1094--1118, 2020.
J. Hwang, Q. Cai, A. Tang and Rachit Agarwal, "TCP ≈ RDMA: CPU-efficient Remote Storage Access with i10", NSDI 2020.
J. Cheng and A. Tang, "Acceleration of Multipath TCP by Letting ACKs Take the Shortest Path", The 40th IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, 2019.
Y. Bi and A. Tang, "On Upper Bounding Shannon Capacity of Graph Through Generalized Conic Programming", Optimization Letters (2019)13: 1313-1323, 2019.
S. Tseng, A. Tang, G. Choudhury and S. Tse. Routing Stability in Hybrid Software-Defined Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 27(2): 790-804, April 2019.

Some Earlier Publications:

E. Mallada, R. Freeman and A. Tang, "Decentralized Synchronization of Heterogeneous Oscillators on Networks with Arbitrary Topology", IEEE Transactions on Control of Networked Systems, 3(1): 12-23, March 2016.
N. Michael and A. Tang, "HALO: Hop-by-hop Adaptive Link-State Optimal Routing", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 23(6): 1862-1875, December 2015.
A. Gushchin, A. Walid and A. Tang, "Scalable Routing in SDN-enabled Networks with Consolidated Middleboxes", Proceedings of ACM Hotmiddlebox, 2015.
E. Mallada and A. Tang, "Synchronization of Weakly Coupled Oscillators: Coupling, Delay and Topology", J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 46(2013) 505101, December 2013.
F. Paganini, A. Tang, A. Ferragut and L. Andrew, "Network Stability under Alpha Fair Bandwidth Allocation with General File Size Distribution", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 57(3): 579-591, March 2012.
M. Wang W. Xu and A. Tang, "On the Performance of Sparse Recovery via Lp- minimization (0<=p<=1)", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 57(11):7255-7278, November 2011.
A. Anandkumar, N. Michael and A. Tang, "Distributed Algorithms for Learning and Cognitive Medium Access with Logarithmic Regret", IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communications , 29(4): 731-745, April 2011.
M. Wang, W. Xu and A. Tang, "A Unique “Non-negative” Solution to an Underdetermined System: from Vectors to Matrices", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing , 59(3): 1007-1016, March 2011.
A. Tang, L. Andrew, K. Jacobsson, K. Johansson, H. Hjalmarsson and S. Low, "Queue Dynamics with Window Flow Control", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 18(5): 1422-1435, October 2010.
A. Wierman, L. Andrew and A. Tang, "Power-Aware Speed Scaling in Processor Sharing Systems", Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, 2009.
A. Tang, J. Wang, S. Low and M. Chiang, "Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Congestion Control: Existence and Uniqueness", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 15(4): 824-837, August 2007.
A. Tang, J. Wang and S. Low, "Understanding CHOKe: Throughput and Spatial Characteristics", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 12(4): 694-707, August 2004.