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DR DANIEL KARIUKI WAWERU

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Mathematics
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Pure Mathematics
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SUMMARY

Mathematician | Researcher in Communication and Information Theory

Lecturer in Pure Mathematics, with research expertise spanning Algebraic Geometry, Coding Theory, and Communication & Information Theory.

Focus: Coding Theory-particularly Algebraic Geometry Codes, Algebraic Curves over Finite Fields, and their connections with Projective Geometry-alongside Algebra, Computer Algebra Tools, and Cooperative Communication Systems.

ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7497-4260
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=f6riYt0AAAAJ
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • 2018-2025: Ph.D. Communication and Information Systems (Algebraic Geometry Coding Theory) – Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. Dissertation: Applying Powerful Subfield Subcodes of Algebraic Geometry Codes to the Design of Optimal Coded Cooperative Wireless Communication Systems.
  • 2015-2017: M.Sc. Pure Mathematics – University of Nairobi, Kenya. Thesis: Noncommutative Gröbner Basis on Quiver Algebras.
  • 2011-2015: B.Sc. Mathematics - University of Nairobi, Kenya
  • 2006-2009: KCSE - St Augustine Sirima Secondary School, Kenya
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

Pure Mathematics · Algebra · Computational Algebra
Algebraic Geometric Coding Theory with applications in Wireless Communications

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Authored Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  1. D. K. Waweru, F. Yang, L. M. Paul, and H. Xu, An optimized Cartier coded-cooperative communication system, Physical Communication, vol. 73, p. 102878, 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.phycom.2025.102878.

  2. D. K. Waweru, F. Yang, C. Zhao, and L. M. Paul, P-Adic LDPC Codes at Precision k, Wireless Personal Communications, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1007/s11277-024-11667-2.

  3. Waweru, D. K., Yang, F., Zhao, C. and Paul, L. M. (2024), Cooperative H-ARQ Employing Powerful Totally Decomposed Cumulative Goppa Codes, Telecommunication Systems, DIO: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-024-01112-x.

  4. Chen Chen, Fengfan Yang, Daniel Kariuki Waweru (2024), Optimized-Goppa Codes Based on the Effective Selection of Goppa Polynomials for Coded-Cooperative Generalized Spatial Modulation Network, Radioengineering, VOL. 33, NO. 1, 75--88, DOI: 10.13164/re.2024.0075.

  5. D. K. Waweru, F. Yang, C. Zhao, L. M. Paul and H. Xu, Distributed Totally Decomposed Cumulative Goppa Coded-Cooperative Communication with Optimized Selection in the Relay, Journal of Communications and Networks, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 182-196, April 2023, doi: 10.23919/JCN.2023.000013.

  6. Chen Chen, Fengfan Yang, Chunli Zhao, Daniel Kariuki Waweru & HongJun Xu, Distributed Rs Coded Cooperation: Optimized Code Construction and Decoding by Critical SNR Aided, Wireless Personal Communications (2023), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-023-10623-w.

  7. Zhao, C., Yang, F., Waweru, D.K., Chen, C., Xu, H., Luo, L., Distributed Goppa-Coded Generalized Spatial Modulation: Optimized Design and Performance Study, Electronics, 2023; 12(11):2404, https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12112404.

  8. Zhao, C., Yang, F., Waweru, D.K., Chen, C., Xu, H., Optimized Distributed Goppa Codes Based on Spatial Modulation, IET Communications, 00, 1 - 18 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1049/cmu2.12634.

  9. Zhao, Chunli, Fengfan Yang, Daniel Kariuki Waweru, Chen Chen, and Hongjun Xu, 2023, Optimized Design of Distributed Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Coded Spatial Modulation, Sensors, 23, no. 7: 3626, https://doi.org/10.3390/s23073626.

  10. Zhao, C. and Yang, F. and Waweru, D. K. and Chen, C. and Xu, H., Optimized Distributed Generalized Reed-Solomon Coding with Space-Time Block Coded Spatial Modulation, Sensors, 2022; 22(16):6305, https://doi.org/10.3390/s22166305.

  11. Waweru, D. K. and Yang, F. and Zhao, C. and Paul, L. M. and Xu, H. (2022), Design of Optimized Distributed Goppa Code and Joint Decoding at the Destination, Telecommunication Systems, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-022-00948-5.

  12. Zhao, C. and Yang, F. and Waweru, D. K. and Chen, C. and Xu, H. (2022), Distributed QC-LDPC Coded Spatial Modulation for Half-Duplex Wireless Communications, Radioengineering, VOL. 31, NO. 3, 362-373, DOI: 10.13164/re.2022.0362.

  13. Zhao, C. and Yang, F. and Waweru, D. K. and Umar, R. (2022), Network Polar Coded Cooperative GSM Scheme Based on Plotkin's Construction, International Journal of Electronics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207217.2021.2025445.

  14. Zhao, C. and Yang, F. and Waweru, D. K. (2021), Reed-Solomon Coded Cooperative Spatial Modulation Based on Nested Construction for Wireless Communication, Radioengineering, 30, 172-183, DOI: 10.13164/re.2021.0172.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Waweru D.K., Maingi D.M. (2023), Two-Sided Noncommutative Gröbner Basis on Quiver Algebras, In: Silvestrov, S., Malyarenko, A. (eds) Non-Commutative and Non-Associative Algebra and Analysis Structures, SPAS 2019, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 426. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32009-5_30

Book Chapters & Theses

  1. Waweru Daniel Kariuki (2025), Applying Powerful Subfield Subcodes of Algebraic Geometry Codes to the Design of Optimal Coded Cooperative Wireless Communication Systems, Ph.D. Dissertation in Communication and Information Systems, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

  2. Waweru Daniel Kariuki (2017), Noncommutative Gröbner Basis on Quiver Algebras, Dissertations in Mathematics at the University of Nairobi. Corpus ID: 126090656.

CONFERENCES & INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Schools and Workshops Attended

  • The 10th Nairobi Workshop in Algebraic Geometry

    Dates: 15th–19th September 2025

    Host: University of Nairobi

    Location: Nairobi, Kenya

    Main Topics Covered: Projective and tropical algebraic geometry; vector bundles on projective varieties; and commutative and non-commutative algebra around the McKay correspondence.

  • The 4th Nairobi Workshop in Algebraic Geometry

    Dates: 21st to 31st August 2018

    Host: University of Nairobi

    Location: Nairobi, Kenya

    Main Topics Covered: Affine and projective varieties; Introduction to elliptic curves, Elliptic integrals.

  • EAUMP-ICTP Summer School and Workshop on Homological Methods

    Dates: 9th to 27th July 2018

    Host: University of Dar- Es- Salaam

    Location: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

    Main Topics Covered: Advanced linear algebra; Galois theory; Lie algebra cohomology and crossed modules; Introduction to hopf algebras.

  • The 3rd Nairobi Workshop in Algebraic Geometry on Moduli spaces

    Dates: 14th to 16th June 2017

    Host: University of Nairobi

    Location: Nairobi, Kenya

    Main Topics Covered: Introduction to moduli spaces; General moduli of curves; Moduli spaces of a hyper surface; Moduli spaces of a representation of a quiver; Moduli of marked disks and cylinders.

  • The 2nd Nairobi Workshop in Algebraic Geometry

    Dates: 8th to 11th August 2016

    Host: University of Nairobi

    Location: Nairobi, Kenya

    Main Topics Covered: Topology of hyper-surfaces; Connection between geometry and algebra; Projective curves.

  • The EAUMP-ICTP Summer School on Number Theory

    Dates: 4th to 22nd July 2016

    Host: University of Rwanda

    Location: Kigali, Rwanda

    Main Topics Covered: Counting points using finite fields; Introduction to cryptology; Elliptic curves and hyper elliptic curves; p-adic numbers, Hensel's lemma and integer solutions to polynomial equations.

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