Salim El Rouayheb
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A. Walter Tyson 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 541: Stochastic Signals and Systems in Fall 2019.
News
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.
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. 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 One-Shot PIR: Refinement and Lifting, October 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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