Salim El Rouayheb

December 2022: Congratulations to Carolina for successfully defending her thesis.

December 2022: Our paper DSAG: A Mixed Synchronous-Asynchronous Iterative Method for Straggler-Resilient Learning has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Communications.

August 2022: Congratulations to Ghadir for successfully defending her thesis.

April 2022: Ghadir Ayache presented a conference talk on Walk for Learning: A Random Walk Approach for Distributed Learning on Heterogeneous Data at the 56th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS). (Video)

January 2022: Our paper Private Multi-Group Aggregation has been accepted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

January 2022: Our paper Intermittent Private Information Retrieval with Application to Location Privacy has been accepted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

November 2021: Will be attending Google’s 2021 Workshop on Federated Learning and Analytics, and giving two talks on:
- How to Turn Privacy ON and OFF and ON Again
- Private Multi-Group Aggregation

August 2021: Our paper ON-OFF Privacy in the Presence of Correlation has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

August 2021: Our paper Field Trace Polynomial Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication is now on arXiv. (Video Presentation)

August 2021: Our paper Degree Tables for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication has been accepted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory.

June 2021: Our paper Degree Tables for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication is now on arXiv.

June 2021: Our paper Private Multi-Group Aggregation is now on arXiv.

April 2021: Our paper Private Multi-Group Aggregation has been accepted to the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information (ISIT). (Video Presentation)

April 2021: Our paper Secure Coded Computation for Efficient Distributed Learning in Mobile IoT has been accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2021.

April 2021: Our paper ON-OFF Privacy Against Correlation Over Time is now on arXiv.

January 2021: Presented a general audience talk on ON/OFF Privacy and Genomic Data at the Institute for advanced studies - IAS. (Video).

January 2021: Our paper Private Weighted Random Walk Stochastic Gradient Descent has been accepted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory.

January 2021: Our paper ON-OFF Privacy Against Correlation Over Time has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.

January 2021: Our paper Codes for Correcting Localized Deletions has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Nobember 2020: Will be giving a talk on “GASP Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication” at the TUM Institute for Communications Engineering (ICE) Speaker Series.

November 2020: Watch the two-part Shannon Channel talk by Aaron B. Wagner on What Hockey Teams and Foraging Animals Can Teach Us About Feedback Communication.

September 2020: New talk on the shannon channel: Two Facets of Learning Robust Models: Fundamental Limits and Generalization to Natural Out-of-Distribution Inputs by Hamed Hasani.

September 2020: Our paper Private Weighted Random Walk Stochastic Gradient Descent is now on arXiv.

July 2020: Organizing AIMCOM2 workshop as part of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2020).

July 2020: Keynote lecture on ON/OFF privacy at the WPS2020 workshop. (Video Presentation)

July 2020: Video talk of our ISIT2020 paper on Mechanisms for Hiding Sensitive Genotypes with Information-Theoretic Privacy.

June 2020: Summer break for the Shannon Channel. Watch the talk by Rashmi Vinayak on Convertible codes and other talks here. See you in September.

June 2020: Video talk of our WPS2020 paper on Notes on Communication and Computation in Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication.

June 2020: Our paper Stochastic Gradient Coding for Straggler Mitigation in Distributed Learning has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory.

May 2020: Video talk of our ICASSP2020 paper on Adaptive Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent for Minimizing Delay in the Presence of Stragglers.

April 2020: Our paper ON-OFF Privacy in the Presence of Correlation is now on arXiv.

March 2020: The Coding and Optimization session is now available on the Shannon channel.

February 2020: Our paper GASP Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

February 2020: Co-organizing a session on Coding for Optimization at CISS 2020.

January 2020: Talk at the Joint Math Meetings on How to distribute the multiplication of Secret Matrices. (Slides)

December 2019: Great collaboration on Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning.

September 2019: Our paper Private and Rateless Adaptive Coded Matrix-Vector Multiplication is now on arXiv.

August 2019: Our paper Secure Coded Cooperative Computation at the Heterogeneous Edge against Byzantine Attacks is now on arXiv.

July 2019: Will be giving a tutorial on Private Information Retrieval at ISIT 2019, Paris.

June 2019: Selected for the A. Walter Tyson Assistant Professorship Award.

June 2019: Our three papers have been accepted to ITW 2019:
- R.G.L D’Oliveira, S. El Rouayheb, D. Heinlein, D. Karpuk, Degree Tables for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication,
- F. Ye, C. Naim, S. El Rouayheb, Preserving ON-OFF Privacy for Past and Future Requests,
- R. Bitar, M. Wootters, S. El Rouayheb, Stochastic Gradient Coding for Flexible Straggler Mitigation in Distributed Learning.

June 2019: Presented a short talk on Single Server PIR: A Song of Computation & Information at the Google Federated Learning Workshop.

May 2019: Uploaded our paper Stochastic Gradient Coding for Straggler Mitigation in Distributed Learning on arXiv.

April 2019: Our paper Codes for Correcting Localized Deletions is now on arXiv.

April 2019: Rawad will be giving a talk on “PRAC: Private and Rateless Adaptive Coded Computation at the Edge” at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing.

April 2019: Our four papers have been accepted to ISIT 2019:
- S. Kas Hanna, S. El Rouayheb, List Decoding of Deletions Using Guess & Check Codes,
- R.G.L. D'Oliveira, S. El Rouayheb, D. Karpuk, GASP Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication,
- C. Naim, F. Ye, S. El Rouayheb, ON-OFF Privacy with Correlated Requests,
- A. Heidarzadeh, S. Kadhe,S. El Rouayheb, A. Sprintson, Single-Server Multi-Message Individually-Private Information Retrieval with Side Information.

March 2019: Uploaded our paper Single-Server Multi-Message Individually-Private Information Retrieval with Side Information on arXiv.

December 2018: Our paper GASP Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication is now on arXiv.

November 2018: Will be giving a talk at Google NYC on “PIR in the Time of Collusions”

October 2018: Uploaded our paper List Decoding of Deletions Using Guess & Check Codes on arXiv.

October 2018: Our paper One-Shot PIR: Refinement and Lifting is now on arXiv.

September 2018: Rawad won Best Poster Award on Optimization and Machine Learning at the Princeton Day of Optimization for his poster on “Codes for Straggler Mitigation in Secure Distributed Linear Regression”.

August 2018: Uploaded our paper The Computational Wiretap Channel on arXiv.

July 2018: Our paper On the Capacity of Single-Server Multi-Message Private Information Retrieval with Side Information is now on arXiv.

June 2018: Uploaded our paper Staircase-PIR: Universally Robust Private Information Retrieval on arXiv.

May 2018: Our journal paper on Guess & Check Codes for Deletions, Insertions, and Synchronization has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

May 2018: Will be presenting our paper on Lifting Private Information Retrieval from Two to any Number of Messages at ISIT 2018

May 2018: Will be giving a talk on Staircase Codes for Secret Sharing and Private Information Retrieval at the at the 2018 SIAM conference on discrete mathematics

April 2018: Will be giving a talk on “The Curious Case of Single-Server Information Theoretic Private Information Retrieval” at the Munich Workshop on Coding and Cryptography 2018.

April 2018: Will be giving a talk at the NSF CISE CAREER Workshop. (Slides)

March 2018: Received the 2017 Google Faculty Research Award in recognition of research related to “Towards efficient Single-Server Private Information Retrieval And Search”.

February 2018: Uploaded our paper Lifting Private Information Retrieval from Two to any Number of Messages on arXiv.

February 2018: Our paper on Minimizing Latency for Secure Coded Computing Using Secret Sharing via Staircase Codes is now available on arXiv.

February 2018: Three talks “PIR with side information”, “PIR in the time of Collusions”, and “Codes with Locality in the Rank and Subspace Metrics” based on our work will be presented at ITA, San Diego.

December 2017: Uploaded an unpublished extended version of our paper on Fractional Repetition Codes that contains proofs that were omitted in the Allerton conference version.

December 2017: Will be giving a talk on Private Information Retrieval in the Time of Collusions at the Technical University of Berlin.

December 2017: Uploaded an extended joural version of our Allerton’16 paper on Codes with Locality in the Rank and Subspace Metrics.

October 2017: Presented my paper on Correcting Bursty and Localized Deletions Using Guess & Check Codes at the 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing. (Slides)

October 2017: Presented my paper on Private Information Retrieval with Side Information: the Single Server case at the 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing. (Slides)

September 2017: Joined the ECE department at Rutgers University.

September 2017: We are excited for having 3 new members joining the CSI Lab: Carolina Naim, Ghadir Ayache, and Rafael D'Oliveira.

September 2017: Uploaded my paper on Private Information Retrieval with Side Information.

August 2017: Gave a talk on “Index Coding and Caching in Wireless Networks” at the 10th Huawei University Day event, Chicago, IL. (Slides)

July 2017: Our journal paper on Staircase Codes for Secret Sharing with Optimal Communication and Read Overheads has been accepted to be published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

May 2017: Uploaded an extended journal version of our paper on Guess & Check Codes for Deletions, Insertions, and Synchronization.

May 2017: Rawad will be presenting a poster at the Midwest ML Symposium and Munich Workshop on Coding and Applications 2017 (MWCA2017) on “Staircase Codes for Secure Distributed Computing”.

May 2017: Serge will be presenting a poster at the Munich Workshop on Coding and Applications 2017 (MWCA2017) on “Correcting Localized Deletions Using Guess & Check Codes”.

May 2017: Invited to give a talk at the Munich Workshop on Coding and Applications 2017 (MWCA2017).

May 2017: Co-Organized a workshop on Information Theory and Coding Theory with Applications to Data Security and Privacy which was held at Institut Mittag-Leffler in Stockholm, and gave a talk on PIR in Distributed Storage Systems.

April 2017: Our paper on Minimizing Latency for Secure Distributed Computing was accepted to ISIT 2017.

April 2017: Our paper on Guess & Check Codes for Deletions and Synchronization was accepted to ISIT 2017.

April 2017: Our paper on Private Information Retrieval Schemes for Coded Data with Arbitrary Collusion Patterns was accepted to ISIT 2017.

April 2017: Our paper on Robust Private Information Retrieval on Coded Data was accepted to ISIT 2017.

January 2017: Invited to give a talk at the Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA) 2017, San Diego, California.

September 2016: Invited Talk on Private Information Retrieval from MDS Coded Data at the 54th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing.

September 2016: Talk on Rank-Metric Codes with Local Recoverability at the 54th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing. (Slides)

September 2016: Co-Organized the IEEE ITSOC Shannon Centennial Event, Chicago.

July 2016: Presented our paper on Private Information Retrieval from MDS Coded Data at ISIT 2016, Barcelona.

July 2016: Presented our paper on Staircase Codes for Secret Sharing at ISIT 2016, Barcelona.

July 2016: Talk on Private Information Retrieval from MDS Coded Data at the Private Information Retrieval, Distributed Storage, Network Coding Workshop, London, 2016. (Slides)

April 2016: Our 2 papers on Private Information Retrieval from MDS Coded Data and Staircase Codes for Secret Sharing got accepted to ISIT 2016, Barcelona.

February 2016: Posted our new paper on Private Information Retrieval from MDS Coded Data.

February 2016: Talk on Secret Sharing in Distributed Storage Systems at the Nexus of Information and Computation Theories, Paris, 2016. (Slides)

December 2015: Posted our new paper on Staircase Codes for Secret Sharing.

December 2015: Giving a talk on Index Coding Algorithms for Constructing Network Codes at DIMACS Workshop on Network Coding: The Next 15 Years. (Slides)

October 2015: Presented our paper on Index Coding and Network Coding via Rank Minimization at ITW, Korea. (Slides, Matlab Code)

July 2015: Our paper on Index Coding and Network Coding via Rank Minimization was accepted to ITW 2015.

May 2015: Organized ‘‘Index Coding, Caching and Distributed Storage“ session at 2015 IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW 2015), Orange county, California. (Slides)

May 2015: Our paper on An Equivalence Between Network Coding and Index Coding has appeared this month in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

April 2015: Uploaded our paper on Index Coding and Network Coding via Rank Minimization on arxiv. Matlab code available here.

April 2015: Our paper on Synchronizing Edits in Distributed Storage Networks was accepted to ISIT 2015.

April 2015: Our paper on Securing Data against Limited-Knowledge Adversaries in Distributed Storage Systems was accepted to ISIT 2015.

April 2015: Organized the DIMACS Workshop on Coding Theoretic Methods for Network Security. (Slides)

March 2015: Attended Between Shannon and Hamming: Network Information Theory and Combinatorics workshop, Banff, Canada.
February 2015: Attended the Algorithms, Radio, and Coding (ARC) workshop, San Diego, California.
February 2015: Presented our paper entitled Synchronizing Edits in Distributed Storage Networks at Information Theory and Applications (ITA) 2015, San Diego, California.
January 2015: My students Rawad, Razane and Xiao attended SPCoding School, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
September 2014: Posted our new paper on Synchronizing Edits in Distributed Storage Networks on Arxiv.
July 2014: Presented our paper on New Inner Bounds for Exact Repair in Distributed Storage at ISIT 2014.
May 2014: Visiting Camilla Hollanti at Turku University, Finland.
April 2014: My student Xiao Huang won second place in the 2014 IIT Research day.
Feb 2013: My two papers on index coding and heterogeneous storage were presented at ITA, San Diego.

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