Ph.D. (University of Maryland, College Park)     

Bachelor (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Zitan Chen received his bachelor's degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2015 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2020. Prior to joining The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, he was a research scientist with Facebook, Inc. His main research interests include coding theory, information theory, and related topics in theoretical computer science.

Openings for highly motivated PhD/MPhil students are available. Students with a solid background in math are welcome to apply.

1. Z. Chen, "Convolutional codes with a maximum distance profile based on skew polynomials," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 68(8):5178-5184, 2022.
2. A. Barg, Z. Chen, and I. Tamo, "A construction of maximally recoverable codes," Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 90(4):939-945, 2022.
3. Z. Chen and A. Barg, "Cyclic and convolutional codes with locality," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 67(2):755-769, 2021.
4. Z. Chen, M. Ye, and A. Barg, "Enabling optimal access and error correction for the repair of Reed-Solomon codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 66(12):7439-7456, 2020.
5. Z. Chen and A. Barg, "Explicit constructions of MSR codes for clustered distributed storage: The rack-aware storage model," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 66(2):886-899, 2020.
6. Z. Chen, S. Jaggi, and M. Langberg, "The capacity of online (causal) q-ary error-erasure channels," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 65(6):3384-3411, 2019.