LORIS – Laboratory for Robust Information Systems

(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!

Fall 2016: Alex and Prisca join LORIS

October 12, 2016October 12, 2016

Our team has grown again -- Alex (Zehui) Chen and Prisca (Siyi) Yang have joined LORIS team as new graduate students. Welcome Alex and Prisca!

Post-doc positions available!

October 1, 2016November 5, 2016

2 postdoc positions available in Prof. Lara Dolecek's research group at UCLA, starting this fall. We are looking for talented students who want to work on one of the following: 1. Coding theoretic methods and algorithms for emerging memories and modern computing systems 2. New algorithms and coding-theoretic techniques for...

Events

(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.

(April 2017) New paper to appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE

Prof. Lara Dolecek's comprehensive survey on channel coding methods for non-volatile memories will appear in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE. Paper is L. Dolecek and Y. Cassuto, "Coding for non-volatile memories: recent advances and new opportunities". Proceedings of the IEEE is the most highly-cited general interest...

(April 2017) Prof. Lara to give an invited talk at Caltech

Prof. Lara Dolecek will be giving an invited talk at Caltech on some of our recent research early next month.

(March 2017) Prof. Lara presents an invited tutorial on coding for error efficient computing

Prof. Lara Dolecek presented a tutorial on coding for error-efficient computing at the SNF/EPFL-sponsored International Exploratory Workshop on Theory and Practice for Error-Efficient Computing Systems. Workshop Info: http://people.csail.mit.edu/psm/tpeecs-2017/

(March 2017) Ahmed and Shahroze present at NVMW

We had 2 oral presentations at the Non-Volatile Memories Workshop: Ahmed Hareedy presented the work on "Non-Binary LDPC Code Optimization for Modern Storage Systems," by A. Hareedy, C. Lanka, and L. Dolecek. Shahroze Kabir presented the work on "Modeling the effects of radiation induced soft errors on LDPC decoding," by F....

(February 2017) Prof. Lara gives an invited talk at ITA

Prof. Lara gives an invited talk at ITA on our group's research on reliable inference under noisy computations and implications on radiation-hardened LDPC decoders.

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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