Rafael G. L. D‘Oliveira
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Postdoctoral Research Associate |
Short Bio
Working at the CSI lab with Salim El Rouayheb.
Previously a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Did a one year research internship at Telecom Paristech under the supervision of Patrick Sole.
PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Campinas (Advisor: Marcelo Firer).
BA and MS in Mathematics from the University of Campinas.
Research Interests
Privacy
Distributed Computing
Coding Theory
Information Theory
Combinatorics
Discrete Geometry
Awards
Best Paper award at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017.
Publications
R.G.L. D'Oliveira and S. El Rouayheb, “One-Shot PIR: Refinement and Lifting”, submitted.
R.G.L. D'Oliveira, S. El Rouayheb, and Muriel Médard, “The Computational Wiretap Channel”, Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2018.
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.
R.G.L. D'Oliveira and M. Firer, “A distance between channels: the average error of mismatched channels”, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 2018.
R.G.L. D'Oliveira and M. Firer, “Channel metrization”, European Journal of Combinatorics, 2018.
W. Liu, R.G.L. D’Oliveira, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and O. Rioul, “BIGnav: Bayesian Information Gain for Guiding Multiscale Navigation”, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2017.
R. G.L. D'Oliveira and M. Firer, “Minimum dimensional Hamming embeddings”, Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2017.
R.G.L. D'Oliveira and M. Firer, “Geometry of communication channels: metrization and decoding”, Symmetry: Culture and Science, Volume 27, No. 4, 2016.
R.G.L. D'Oliveira and M. Firer, “The packing radius of a code and partitioning problems: The case for poset metrics on finite vector spaces”, Discrete Mathematics, 2015.
R.G.L. D'Oliveira and M. Firer, “The packing radius of a code and partitioning problems: The case for poset metrics”, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), 2014.
Presentations in International Conferences
Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing - Allerton, USA (2018)
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Vail, USA (2018)
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Denver, USA (2017)
Symmetry Festival - Vienna, Austria (2016)
Workshop on Mathematics in Communications - Santander, Spain (2016)
The Ninth International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography - Paris, France (2015)
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Honolulu, USA (2014)
Workshop on Distance Geometry and Applications - Manaus, Brazil (2013)
Organization of Events
Participated in the organization of ITW 2011, Many Faces of Distances 2014 and the São Paulo Coding and Information School 2015.
Teaching Experience
I was a teacher’s assistant in the following courses: Multivariate Calculus (2011,2013), Calculus III (2014), Analysis (2014) and Complex Variables (2014)
Languages
Portuguese: Native
English: Fluent (7 years in the United States)
Spanish: Fluent (4 years in Uruguay)
French: Basic (1 year in France)