David Tse is an engineer and professor at Stanford University, holding the Thomas Kailath and Guanghan Xu Professorship in the School of Engineering. His expertise in information theory and its applications across different fields, including including wireless communication, machine learning, and computational biology.
He earned his B.S in system design Engineering from the University of Waterloo and his M.S. in EducationElectrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
He began his career as a postdoctoral researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories. His research contributions include the invention of the proportional-fair scheduling algorithm, which significantly enhanced the efficiency of cellular networks, impacting billions of users globally.