Di Niu: Education

 
 

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sep 2008 — Sep 2012

Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    ⊲ Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering. Award Date: April 2013

    • Thesis: “Demand Forecast, Resource Allocation and Pricing for Multimedia Delivery from the Cloud” (see Publications for a pdf version)

    • Advisor: Baochun Li


University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sep 2006 — Sep 2008

Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    ⊲ M.A.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering

    • Thesis: “On the Resilience of Network Coding in Peer-to-Peer Networks and its Applications” (see Publications for a pdf version)

    • Advisor: Baochun Li


Graduate Courses taken at University of Toronto

ECE1500 Stochastic Processes - Ben Liang

ECE1501 Error Control Codes - Frank Kschischang

CSC2209 Computer Networks - Stefan Saroiu

CSC2600 Convex Optimization - Anthony Bonner

CSC2411 Linear Programming and Combinatorial Optimization - Avner Magen

CSC2515 Introduction to Machine Learning - Geoffrey Hinton

CSC2206 Systems Modeling and Analysis - Peter Marbach

CSC2203 Packet Switch and Network Architectures - Yashar Ganjali

ECE1724 Programming Massively Parallel Graphics Processors - Andreas Moshovos

ECE1771 Quality of Service - Baochun Li


Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University, Guangzhou, China, September 2001 — July 2005

Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering

    ⊲ B.Eng., Communications Engineering

    • Thesis: “A Study on Carrier Frequency Offset Estimation for OFDMA Systems”

    • Thesis Advisor: Professor Xianhua Dai


 

Education History

GRE (June 2004, Paper-based Test, Guangzhou, China)
    Quantitative 800 (92%), Verbal 580 (79%), Analytical Writing 5.5 (86%)

Standardized Exams