Sha Yao received the B. Eng. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Zhejiang
University, China, in 2004, and the M. Sc. degree with specialization in
wireless systems from the Royal
Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, in 2006. He joined the
Communication Theory
Lab at KTH in 2006 where he worked towards a Ph.D. degree.
His research interests include information-theoretic perspectives of
cooperative transmission and relay network. His advisor is Prof.
Mikael
Skoglund. He held a visiting position at Princeton
University, NJ, in 2009. He successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in
March, 2011.