Joseph Koo Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Stanford University Advisor: John T. Gill III

Work experience:

• April 2012 -- present:
  Software engineer at Arista Networks
• June 2010 -- Sept. 2010:
  Engineering intern at Qualcomm, Corporate Research and Development Division
• June 2009 -- Sept. 2009:
  Network research intern at BBN Technologies, Advanced Networking Group
• June 2008 -- Sept. 2008:
  Quantitative research intern at Citadel Investment Group, Portfolio Construction Group

Education:

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, January 2012
• M.S., Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, April 2008
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, June 2005
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, June 2003

Ph.D. dissertation:

• J. C. Koo, Combinatorial approaches to scalability problems in storage, networking, and communications, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, December 2011. [PDF] [permalink]

Publications:

• J. C. Koo and J. T. Gill, Scalable constructions of fractional repetition codes in distributed storage systems, 49th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept. 28 -- 30, 2011, pp. 1366-1373. [PDF] [arXiv] [IEEEXplore]
• J. C. Koo, W. Wu, and J. T. Gill, Delay-rate tradeoff for ergodic interference alignment in the Gaussian case, 48th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept. 29 -- Oct. 1, 2010, pp. 1069-1075. [PDF] [arXiv] [IEEEXplore]
• J. C. Koo and J. T. Gill, Low-complexity non-uniform demand multicast network coding problems, 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept. 30 -- Oct. 2, 2009, pp. 228-235. [PDF] [arXiv] [IEEEXplore]

Research interests:

• Distributed storage systems
• Network coding
• Convex optimization and its applications
• Digital communications

Teaching experience:

• Teaching assistant (TA) for EE364B, Convex Optimization II, Spring 2011
• Teaching assistant (TA) for EE364A, Convex Optimization I, Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Winter 2008
• Teaching assistant (TA) for EE387, Algebraic Error Control Codes, Autumn 2008
• Teaching assistant (TA) for CS229 Machine Learning, Autumn 2007

Last updated: May 2012