{"id":99,"date":"2026-04-18T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:30:27","slug":"tutorial-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/tutorial-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:41% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"451\" src=\"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sdraperPic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Stark Draper<\/strong>, University of Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tutorial title: &#8220;Casting Error-Correction Decoding as a Convex Optimization Problem, and Building Efficient Solvers&#8221;<br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:41% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Warren-Gross.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Warren Gross<\/strong>, McGill University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tutorial title: &#8220;Polar Decoders in Silicon: From Algorithms to Architectures&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:41% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/eecs_sergey_loyka.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Sergey Loyka<\/strong>, University of Ottawa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tutorial title &#8220;Massive MIMO: From Antenna Array to Information Theory&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:41% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"786\" height=\"1055\" src=\"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ziquao.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Ziqiao Wang<\/strong>, Tongji University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tutorial title: &#8220;Information-Theoretic Analysis for Generalization of Learning Algorithms&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-f3ac5549-58da-48f3-ba01-c14aa315bfa3\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-f3ac5549-58da-48f3-ba01-c14aa315bfa3\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-f3ac5549-58da-48f3-ba01-c14aa315bfa3\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-f3ac5549-58da-48f3-ba01-c14aa315bfa3\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stark Draper, University of Toronto Tutorial title: &#8220;Casting Error-Correction Decoding as a Convex Optimization Problem, and Building Efficient Solvers&#8221; Warren Gross, McGill University Tutorial title: &#8220;Polar Decoders in Silicon: From Algorithms to Architectures&#8221; Sergey Loyka, University of Ottawa Tutorial title &#8220;Massive MIMO: From Antenna Array to Information Theory&#8221; Ziqiao Wang, Tongji University Tutorial title: &#8220;Information-Theoretic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cwit.ca\/2026\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}