Biography

I am a DSP systems engineer with Samsung Research America, currently finishing my PhD at Rice University with Dr. Joseph Cavallaro. Please read the Start Here page for more info and also consider signing up for my email newsletter below.

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Interests
  • Digital Predistortion
  • Massive MIMO
  • Dynamic Spectrum Access
  • VLSI for Digital Signal Processing
Education

  • MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016

    Rice University

  • BS in Mathematics, 2014

    Louisiana Tech

  • BSEE in Electrical Engineering, 2014

    Louisiana Tech

Recent Posts

Chairing Technical Session T2 at SIPS2019
I will be chairing technical session T2 at the IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems on October 22nd in Nanjing China. This session will be focusing on Machine Learning and feature the following papers:
Chance Tarver
Last updated on Apr 5, 2021 1 min read
Visit with NCTU
I am visiting National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan for the next two weeks. We are collaborating with the free5GC team here including Prof. Jyh-Cheng Chen. Free5GC is an open-source project for 5th generation (5G) mobile core network.
Chance Tarver
Last updated on Apr 5, 2021 1 min read
Visit with NCTU
New Version of my DPD Matlab Library Available
I released a new version of my DPD library for Matlab yesterday. You can find the source code here. This software can enable you to easily add DPD to any of your Matlab based wireless prototyping.
Chance Tarver
Last updated on Apr 5, 2021 2 min read
New Version of my DPD Matlab Library Available
Two Papers Accepted for Asilomar 2019
The two papers I was involved with and submitted to Asilomar this year were accepted. The first paper is “Neural Network DPD via Backpropagation through a Neural Network Model of the PA.
Chance Tarver
Last updated on Apr 5, 2021 1 min read
New Preprint Available. Neural Networks are taking over DPD!
I have a new preprint available for my submission to the 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems in Nanjing, China. The paper is titled “Design and Implementation of a Neural Network Based Predistorter for Enhanced Mobile Broadband” and is available here.
Chance Tarver
Last updated on Apr 5, 2021 1 min read
New Preprint Available. Neural Networks are taking over DPD!
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Skills

DSP

Able to implement custom, complex signal processing tasks such as predistorters.

Code

Codes daily in Matlab, Python, C++, or CUDA with a belief in well documented and version controlled code.

Wireless Systems

Background in PHY and MAC systems for 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi, etc.

Open Education

Believes in sharing knowledge openly for the good of everyone.

Running

Runs daily for fitness and sanity.

Coffee

Coffee Snob. Uses aeropress, french press, espresso, v60, etc.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Senior Systems Design/Architecture Engineer
Samsung Research America
Jan 2020 – Present Plano, Texas
Devloping proof-of-concept testbeds for beyond 5G.
 
 
 
 
 
Wireless Systems Engineer Intern
Samsung Research America
May 2019 – Aug 2019 Plano, TX
Developed CUDA accelerated PHY functions for 5G NR testbed.

Recent Publications

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Hyoungju Ji, Younsun Kim, Khurram Muhammad, Chance Tarver, Matthew Tonnemacher, Taehyoung Kim, Jinyoung Oh, Bin Yu, Gary Xu, Juho Lee (2021). Extending 5G TDD Coverage with XDD: Cross Division Duplex. IEEE Access.

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Chance Tarver, Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Lauri Anttila, Mikko Valkama, Joseph R. Cavallaro (2021). Low-complexity, multi sub-band digital predistortion. JSPS.

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Chance Tarver, Matthew Tonnemacher, Hao Chen, Jianzhong Zhang, Joseph R. Cavallaro (2021). GPU-Based, LDPC Decoding for 5G and Beyond. OJCAS.

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Chance Tarver, Arav Singhal, Joseph R. Cavallaro (2020). GPU-Based Linearization of MIMO Arrays. SiPS.

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Chance Tarver, Matthew Tonnemacher, Hao Chen, Jianzhong Charlie Zhang, Joseph R. Cavallaro (2020). GPU-Based LDPC Decoding for vRAN Systems in 5G and Beyond. ISCAS.

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