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Lele Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Before joining UBC, she was an NSF Center for Science of Information postdoctoral fellow. From 2015 to 2017, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and Tel Aviv University. She received her Ph.D. degree in Communication Theory and Systems at the University of California, San Diego, in 2015. She attended the Academic Talent Program and obtained a B.E. degree at Tsinghua University, China in 2009. Her research interests include information theory, coding theory, communication theory, statistical inference on graphs, high dimensional statistics, and generative models in machine learning. She is a recipient of the 2013 UCSD Shannon Memorial Fellowship, the 2013-2014 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship, and the 2017 NSF Center for Science of Information Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her PhD thesis "Channel coding techniques for network communication" won the 2017 Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award. She serves as the Vice President of the Canadian Society of Information Theory 2022-2025, an associate editor for the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Transactions on Communications 2023-2026, and a guest associate editor for the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ Journal on Selected Areas on Information Theory 2023.