LORIS – Laboratory for Robust Information Systems

(June 2018) Clayton wins 2018 Best Dissertation Award!

June 23, 2018July 3, 2018

Clayton Schoeny has won the Best Dissertation Award in Signals and Systems, ECE Department, UCLA, capping an amazing PhD work with several previous honors and recognitions, including QiF Prize, DYF award, and several best paper awards. Congratulations Clayton! We wish Clayton continued success in his future endeavors as a Data...

(April 2018) Memorable Paper Award and a Runner-Up Recognition at NVMW 2018

April 3, 2018July 3, 2018

We have received the inaugural Memorable Paper Award at the Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW) in the area of devices, coding, and information theory on March 13th, 2018, for our paper titled “A Three-Stage Approach for Designing Non-Binary Spatially-Coupled Codes for Flash Memories,” and authored by A. Hareedy, H. Esfahanizadeh, and L. Dolecek. Our...

(March 2018) Best paper award at SELSE

March 3, 2018July 3, 2018

We received a Best-of-SELSE paper award for the paper “Parity++: Lightweight Error Correction for Last Level Caches” by I. Alam, C. Schoeny, L. Dolecek, and P. Gupta. UCLA press release is here:

(Oct 2017) Best paper award at CASES 2017.

November 6, 2017November 6, 2017

We have won another best paper award (5th paper award in under 2 years!). This one is for the joint work with Prof. Gupta and his students on new methods (including novel context-dependent ECC methods) for low-cost IoT devices. The paper titled "Low cost memory fault tolerance for IoT devices,"...

(Oct 2017) New NSF grant on in-memory computing

October 25, 2017November 6, 2017

Prof. Lara has been awarded a new half a million $ NSF grant to study robust in-memory computing and fast storage access. This is a collaborative project supported by NSF and BSF (Israel), under which we will work closely with Israeli co-PI Prof. Yuval Cassuto of Technion.

(June 2017) Multiple awards and honors for LORIS students: Fred, Clayton & Ahmed.

June 2, 2017June 5, 2017

Clayton Schoeny and Ahmed Hareedy are both selected as the recipients of the prestigious UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship. Ahmed Hareedy is selected to receive Excellence in Teaching Award from the EE Department for outstanding performance as a TA. This highly competitive award is given annually to only a single course...

(May 2017) Fred wins best dissertation award!

May 15, 2017May 15, 2017

Fred is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Outstanding PhD Dissertation in Signals & Systems Award. Congratulations Fred on another outstanding achievement!

(April 2017) Best paper award from IEEE Data Storage Society

April 13, 2017April 13, 2017

We received a best student paper award from the IEEE Data Storage Society for the paper titled "Correcting Grain Errors in Magnetic Media"and authored by Ryan Gabrys, Eitan Yaakobi, and Lara Dolecek. The paper appeared in May 2015 issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

New journal paper on sequence reconstruction from insertion-induced traces

February 2, 2017

New journal paper by F. Sala, R. Gabrys, C. Schoeny, and L. Dolecek, and titled ``Exact Reconstruction from Insertions in Synchronization Codes,” will appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. The paper offers a closed form solution on the number of insertion-induced traces needed for exact codeword reconstruction, for codewords of...

Fred Sala earns his PhD with a superb dissertation

January 5, 2017

Fred Sala has successfully defended his PhD in December 2016. Congratulations Fred on an outstanding dissertation!

Events

(March 2018) New review paper on TDMR to appear in the Proceedings of IEEE

Our paper "Signal Processing and Coding Techniques for 2-D Magnetic Recording: An Overview," by S. S. Garani, L. Dolecek, J. Berry, F. Sala, and B. Vasic will appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE.

(February 2018) Two presentations at NVMW

Our team will present two results at the upcoming NVMW in San Diego: 1) new results by Ahmed and Homa on spatially coupled codes, and 2) new results on permutation codes by Prisca and Clayton.

(Oct 2017) Invited paper on coding for memories at ITW

We will present an invited paper on new context-dependent coding methods for on-chip memories at the upcoming ITW conference.

(Oct 2017) Invited paper on DNA storage at Asilomar

We will present an invited paper on new coding methods for DNA storage at the upcoming Asilomar conference.

(Oct 2017) New papers and presentations at ISIT, FMS, Allerton, Asilomar, and ITW

Prof. Lara presents our latest research on spatially coupled codes for storage at ISIT in June; Homa then presents our latest results on spatially coupled codes for Flash the Annual Flash Memory Summit in August. Fred presents new research results on coding for machine learning data at Allerton. Alex presents...

(June 2017) Prof. Lara to deliver a keynote at TCE, Technion

Prof. Lara will deliver a keynote at the upcoming The 7th Annual Henry Taub TCE Conference held at Technion, Haifa, Israel.

LORIS laboratory works on developing mathematical tools and techniques for a broad range of modern data storage and memory technologies, future computing systems, and new data science applications. For more information see RESEARCH PAGES.

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