Scholar
Chao Tian
Google Scholar ID: 3N72KDQAAAAJ
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,881
H-index
23
i10-index
46
Publications
20
Co-authors
20
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Best Paper Award, Workshop on Machine Learning and Compression @ NeurIPS 2024: “Transforms learn variable-order Markov chains in context”
- Best Paper Award, first ‘Learn to compress’ workshop @ ISIT 2024: “Staggered quantizers for perfect perceptual quality”
- 2023–2024 IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer
- 2022 ECE Department Star Faculty Award
- Coauthor of 2020–2021 IEEE Data Storage Best Student Paper Award (awarded in 2022)
- 2019 NetApp Faculty Fellowship
- Coauthor of 2017 IEEE Jack Wolf ISIT Best Student Paper Award
- 2014 IEEE Data Storage Best Paper Award
- AT&T Key Contributor Award (2010, 2011, 2013)
- Liu-Memorial Award, Cornell University (2004, for excellence in graduate study and research)
Research Experience
- Researcher at AT&T Labs-Research (formerly Shannon Labs) in communication and signal processing for approximately seven years
- Faculty member at the University of Tennessee Knoxville for several years
- Currently Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
- Delivered a one-day short course on Large Language Models at Oncor Electric Delivery in April 2025
- Offers an extended 3-day LLM short course through the TAMU Smart Grid Center
