LORIS – Laboratory for Robust Information Systems

(February 2019) Prof. Lara Dolecek has been appointed the Secretary of the IEEE Information Theory Society

February 11, 2019

Prof. Lara Dolecek has been appointed the secretary of the ITSOC society and a member of its Board of Governors. BOG link https://www.itsoc.org/people/bog

(February 2019) Lev Tauz receives 2019 Best Prelim Exam Award !

February 11, 2019

LORIS student Lev Tauz is the recipient of the Best Prelim Exam in Signals and Systems Award in 2019! Congratulations Lev, we are proud of you!

(February 2019) Prof. Lara Dolecek will be a plenary speaker at NVMW 2019

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019

Prof. Lara Dolecek will deliver a plenary talk at the upcoming Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW) to be held at UCSD, San Diego in March 2019.

(December 2018) Professor Lara Dolecek gave a plenary talk at the IEEE ISTC conference in Hong Kong

January 11, 2019February 11, 2019

Professor Lara Dolecek delivered a plenary talk on spatially coupled codes at the IEEE International Symposium on Turbo Coding and Iterative Information Processing, held in Hong Kong in December 2018.

(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...

Events

(January 2019) Two LORIS papers are finalists at NVMW 2019

Two of our research papers have been selected as finalists for the memorable paper award at the upcoming NVMW 2019: "Coding-assisted adaptive thresholding for sneak-path mitigation in resistive memories," by Z. Chen, C. Schoeny, and L. Dolecek, and "Multi-dimensional spatially coupled codes with improved cycle properties," by H. Esfahanizadeh, A....

(January 2019) New journal paper in TCOM on Spatially-Coupled Codes

Our paper titled "Finite-Length Construction of High Performance Spatially-Coupled Codes via Optimized Partitioning and Lifting," authored by H. Esfahanizadeh, A. Hareedy, and L. Dolecek is published in January 2019 issue of IEEE Transactions on Communications.

(December 2018) New journal paper on reliable In-Memory Computing

Our paper titled "Hamming Distance Computation in Unreliable Resistive Memory," authored by Zehui (Alex) Chen, Clayton Schoeny, and L. Dolecek, appears in the November 2018 issue of IEEE Transactions on Communications.

(September 2018) New journal paper in T-IT on non-binary graph codes

Our journal paper titled "A Combinatorial Methodology for Optimizing Non-Binary Graph-Based Codes: Theoretical Analysis and Applications in Data Storage" authored by A. Hareedy, C. Lanka, N. Guo, and L. Dolecek, has been accepted for publication to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

(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.

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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