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Contact
- Name: Jiale Cheng
- Affiliation: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
- Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105, U.S.
- Email: jlcheng@umich.edu
- University-hosted page: sites.google.com/umich.edu/jialecheng
- ORCID: 0000-0003-1379-4324
- GitHub: Jiale-Cheng
- Curriculum vitae: Download the March 2026 CV
Research Interests
My current research focuses on graph alignment theory, information theory, and their applications to networks and systems. My doctoral work studies network alignment and graph inference.
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, August 2023-present
- Advisor: Prof. Lei Ying
- Research areas: network alignment and graph inference
Southeast University, School of Information Science and Engineering, Nanjing, China
M.S. in Communications, September 2020-June 2023
- Advisors: Prof. Nan Liu and Prof. Wei Kang
- Research areas: information theory, network coding, private information retrieval, coded caching, and secure multiparty computation
Southeast University, Chien-Shiung Wu Honored College, Nanjing, China
B.Eng. (Hons.) in Communication Engineering, September 2016-June 2020
- Advisor: Prof. Xiaohan Sun
- Research areas: signal processing, MIMO-OFDM, communications, edge computing, and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
Publications
Publication status below reflects the supplied March 2026 CV.
In Preparation
- J. Cheng, Z. Wang, and L. Ying, “Galton-Watson Tree Testing with Diverging Offspring with Application to Graph Matching.”
- J. Cheng, H. Tong, and L. Ying, “Network Alignment with Positively and Negatively Correlated Edges.”
Preprint
- Q. Lu, J. Cheng, W. Kang, and N. Liu, “Capacity of Hierarchical Secure Coded Gradient Aggregation with Straggling Communication Links,” 2024. arXiv:2412.11496
Published
- J. Cheng, N. Liu, W. Kang, and Y. Li, “The Capacity of Symmetric Private Information Retrieval Under Arbitrary Collusion and Eavesdropping Patterns,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 17, pp. 3037-3050, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2022.3201375
- J. Cheng, N. Liu, and W. Kang, “On the Asymptotic Capacity of Information Theoretical Privacy-preserving Epidemiological Data Collection,” Entropy, vol. 25, no. 4, article 625, 2023. Featured Paper. DOI: 10.3390/e25040625
Research Experience
National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Nanjing, China
September 2020-present
- Research in information theory and network coding
- Participated in work supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
- Filed Chinese patent publication CN 114567488 A
National Engineering Research Center for Optical Sensor/Communication Integrated Network, Nanjing, China
September 2018-February 2020
- Studied phased-array focusing for ultrasonic wireless power transmission
- Conducted simulation work before physical implementation
- Presented work at SiPS 2019
Selected Presentations and Participation
- 2022 IEEE East Asian School of Information Theory, Shenzhen, August 2022. Student poster: “The Capacity of Symmetric Private Information Retrieval Under Arbitrary Collusion and Eavesdropping Patterns.”
- 2021 IEEE East Asian School of Information Theory, online, August 2021. Student participant.
- 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems, Nanjing, October 2019. Student poster and oral presentation: “The Design and Simulation of Phased Array Focus in Ultrasonic Wireless Power Transmission.”
- 2017 AAPT Summer Meeting, Cincinnati, July 2017. Student poster: “On the Falling of a Rigid Body.”
Honors and Awards
- Rackham Doctoral Student Fellowship, 2023
- Honorable Mention, Mathematical Contest in Modeling/ICM, 2019
- National Endeavour Fellowship of China, Southeast University, 2017
Skills and Interests
- Languages: Chinese (native), English (fluent), Japanese (elementary)
- Technical: MATLAB, C/C++, LaTeX, Python, Mathematica, Photoshop, and Microsoft Office
- Interests: reading, piano, and table tennis
About This Site
I started this site to share notes from topics I was learning. It now also serves as an academic homepage while preserving older writing in information theory, communications, mathematics, and related areas. Some older notes are in Chinese and may reflect an earlier stage of my studies.
Posts use the following status labels:
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| Completed | The post is substantially complete, though small revisions may still appear. |
| Writing | The post is actively being developed. |
| Paused | Work is temporarily paused. |
| Archived | The post is retained for reference but is not expected to receive substantial updates. |
The source code is publicly available. Licensing information and third-party acknowledgements are recorded in the repository’s license file.