Mengyuan Zhao

I am a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Tobias Oechtering and the co-supervision of Dr. Maël Le Treust on the topic of information theory of stochastic decision problems since June 2023. Before joining KTH, I got my master's degree of applied mathematics at ETH Zürich.

I am interested in classical information theory using various mathematical tools, e.g. statistics, analysis, graph theory, etc.. At present, my research focuses on deriving fundamental limits for a distributed decision-making problem that was initially formulated by Hans Witsenhausen as a famous counterexample in 1968.

Recent results:

• Coordination coding with causal encoder for vector-valued Witsenhausen counterexample (accepted by IEEE ISIT 2024)

• Optimal Gaussian Strategies for Vector-valued Witsenhausen Counterexample with Non-causal State Estimator (accepted by IEEE CDC 2024)

• Causal Vector-valued Witsenhausen Counterexamples with Feedback (accepted by IEEE ITW 2024)