Salim El Rouayheb
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Assistant Professor Email: salim.elrouayheb@rutgers.edu
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Coding and Securing Information (CSI) Lab
More information about our research at the CSI Lab can be found here.
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Current Members
Teaching
Teaching ECE 312: Discrete Math in Spring 2018.
News
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December 2017: Uploaded an unpublished extended version of our paper on Fractional Repetition Codes that contains proofs that were omitted in the Allerton conference version.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 our 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 our 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 our 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)
Short Bio
I am an assistant professor in the ECE Department at Rutgers University. From 2013 to 2017 I was an assistant professor at the ECE Department at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. I was a research scholar at the EE Department at Princeton University (2012-2013) and a postdoc at the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley (2010-2011). I received my Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, in 2009. During Summer 2006, I was an intern at the Mathematics of Communication Research Department at Bell Labs. I received the Google Faculty Award in 2018 and the NSF CAREER award in 2016. My research interests lie in the area of information theoretic security and privacy of data in networks and distributed storage systems.
General Research Interests
Information theoretic security in distributed systems
Private information retrieval and search
Secure machine learning algorithms
Data synchronization in distributed systems
Selected Publications
R.G.L. D’Oliveira and S. El Rouayheb Lifting Private Information Retrieval from Two to any Number of Messages, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2018.
S. Kas Hanna and S. El Rouayheb, Correcting Bursty and Localized Deletions Using Guess & Check Codes, 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October 2017.
S. Kadhe, B. Garcia, A. Heidarzadeh, S. El Rouayheb and A. Sprintson, Private Information Retrieval with Side Information: the Single Server case, 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October 2017.
R. Tajeddine and S. El Rouayheb, Robust Private Information Retrieval on Coded Data, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, June 2017.
R. Bitar and S. El Rouayheb, Staircase Codes for Secret Sharing with Optimal Communication and Read Overheads, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, July 2017.
S. Kas Hanna and S. El Rouayheb, Guess & Check Codes for Deletions, Insertions, and Synchronization, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May, 2017.
R. Tajeddine and S. El Rouayheb, Private Information Retrieval from MDS Coded Data, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2016.
R. Bitar and S. El Rouayheb, Staircase Codes for Secret Sharing, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2016.
S. El Rouayheb, S. Goparaju, H. M. Kiah and O. Milenkovic, Synchronization and Deduplication in Coded Distributed Storage Networks, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, No. 99, December 2015.
Shannon Channel
I am organizing the Shannon Channel on youtube which is series of Google Hangout talks related to the general area of information theory.
Workshop on Information Theory and Coding Theory with Applications to Data Security and Privacy
I co-organized a workshop on Information Theory and Coding Theory with Applications to Data Security and Privacy that was held at Institut Mittag-Leffler in Stockholm from May 15 to May 19, 2017.
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Chicago Shannon Centennial
I co-organized the IEEE ITSOC Shannon Centennial Event that was held in Chicago on September 23, 2016.
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