Jennifer Tang
Ph.D. (MIT), M.S. (MIT), B.Eng. (Princeton)
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
Primary sphere of excellence in research
New Frontiers in Information and Communication Technologies
New Frontiers in Information and Communication Technologies
Secondary sphere(s) of excellence in research
Modeling and Artificial Intelligence
Modeling and Artificial Intelligence
Research interests and affiliations
Research interests
- Information Theory
- Data compression and quantization
- Prediction and estimation
- Machine learning applications
- Agent-based networks and opinion dynamics
Expertise type(s) (NSERC subjects)
- 2507 Communications systems
- 2700 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Biography
Before joining the Electrical Engineering Department at Polytechnique Montréal, Jennifer Tang was at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, where she also earned her PhD in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her research interests center around Information Theory, including its applications to machine learning and emerging data storage technologies.
Teaching
ELE6705 – Traitement numérique des signaux
Education
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- B.Eng., Electrical Engineering , Princeton University
