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Zhiying Wang

Zhiying Wang

Associate Professor, EECS
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Biography

Zhiying Wang, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. Wang received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2013 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University before joining UCI in 2015. Wang's research focuses on information theory and coding theory, with applications to data storage systems and distributed computing.

Wang has made contributions to coding for distributed storage systems, including work on regenerating codes, MDS array codes, and repair bandwidth optimization. More recently, Wang's research has expanded to include coding for DNA-based data storage, private information retrieval, and age of information in communication networks. Wang received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award in 2023 for work on coding for composite DNA storage.

Wang has supervised six graduated Ph.D. students and mentored numerous master's and undergraduate students. Wang has taught both undergraduate required courses in probability and signals and systems, as well as graduate courses in information storage and coding theory. Wang has served on technical program committees for IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and IEEE International Conference on Communications, and has been a reviewer for multiple IEEE transactions and journals.

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Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2013
  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2009
  • B.S. in Information Electronics and Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2007
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Distinctions

  • Finalist, Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award
  • IEEE Data Storage Best Paper Award
  • NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award
  • NSF Center for Science of Information Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
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Areas of Expertise

  • Information Theory and Coding
  • Distributed Storage Systems
  • Regenerating Codes
  • Private Information Retrieval
  • DNA Data Storage
  • Age of Information Networks
  • Federated Learning Load Balancing

Recent Publications

  • Wenkai Zhang, Zhiying Wang, “Ramp secret sharing for composite DNA”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 6, pp. 217-231, 2025.
  • Wenkai Zhang, Zhiying Wang, “Codes for limited-magnitude probability error in DNA storage”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 71, no. 7, pp. 5063-5081, 2025.
  • Alireza Javani, Marwen Zorgui, Zhiying Wang, “Age of information for multiple-source multiple-server networks”, IEEE Transactions on Networking, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 17-34, 2025.
  • Tomer Cohen, Zhiying Wang, Eitan Yaakobi, Zohar Yakhini, “Rank modulated composite encoding for data storage in DNA”, pp. 1-5, 2025. Presented at 2025 13th International Symposium on Topics in Coding (ISTC), Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2025.
  • Alireza Javani, Zhiying Wang, “Load balancing in federated learning”, pp. 3950-3955, 2024. Presented at GLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, December 2024.
  • Wenkai Zhang, Zhiying Wang, “Secret sharing for DNA probability vectors”, pp. 4578-4583, 2024. Presented at ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, Denver, CO, USA, June 2024.
  • Weiqi Li, Zhiying Wang, Taiting Lu, Hamid Jafarkhani, “Storage codes with flexible number of nodes”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 69, no. 1, 2022.
  • Weiqi Li, Zhen Chen, Zhiying Wang, Syed A. Jafar, Hamid Jafarkhani, “Flexible distributed matrix multiplication”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 68, no. 11, pp. 7500-7514, 2022.
  • Peng Fei, Zhen Chen, Zhiying Wang, Syed A. Jafar, “Communication-efficient Clock Synchronization”, 2022. Presented at ICC 2022-IEEE International Conference on Communications, Seoul, South Korea, 2022.
  • Wenkai Zhang, Zhen Chen, Zhiying Wang, “Limited-magnitude error correction for probability vectors in DNA storage”, 2022. Presented at ICC 2022-IEEE International Conference on Communications, Seoul, South Korea, 2022.
  • Zhiying Wang, Weiqi Li, Hamid Jafarkhani, “Method and System for Repairing Reed-Solomon Codes”, 2022. Patent No. US Patent No. 11,228,323.
  • Zhen Chen, Zhuqing Jia, Zhiying Wang, Syed A. Jafar, “GCSA codes with noise alignment for secure coded multi-party batch matrix multiplication”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 306-316, 2021.
  • Peng Fei, Zhou Li, Zhiying Wang, Xiao Yu, Ding Li, Kangkook Jee, “SEAL: storage-efficient causality analysis on enterprise logs with query-friendly compression”, 2021. Presented at 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 21), 2021.
  • Weiqi Li, Zhen Chen, Zhiying Wang, Syed A. Jafar, Hamid Jafarkhani, “Flexible constructions for distributed matrix multiplication”, 2021. Presented at IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2021.
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Contact Information

Website: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/zhiying/

Email: zhiying@uci.edu

Phone: (949) 824-0681

Address: 4430 Engineering Hall

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Last updated on 5/19/2026.