Lara DolecekLara Dolecek, PhD is a Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Mathematics (courtesy) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she directs Laboratory for Robust Information Systems (LORIS).

Current Activities

Current Activities

Prof. Dolecek is a member of UCLA Center for Quantum Science & Engineering (CQSE) and is a co-founder of UCLA Center on Development of Emerging Storage Systems (CoDESS). She is currently serving as Secretary of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

Research Program

Research Program
We invent mathematical tools and techniques for cutting-edge technologies, including modern data storage systems, quantum computing, distributed computing, and data science and machine learning applications. For more info, visit Research Areas pages.

Impact

Impact
Our research has been supported by several state, federal, and international agencies, as well as several private companies and consortia. Our results has been recognized by many research and paper awards won by our team members.

Recent Research Results, Professional Service, and Teaching Activities

Prof. Dolecek is a general co-chair of NVMW 2023

Prof. Dolecek is a general co-chair of NVMW 2023

Prof. Dolecek is a general chair, along with Prof. Hung-Wei Tseng, of the annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW) held at UC San Diego. NVMW is a leading venue that uniquely brings together researchers in systems, architectures, signal processing, and...

Prof. Dolecek is a plenary speaker at ITA 2023

Prof. Dolecek is a speaker in a plenary session at the Information Theory and Applications (ITA), by invitation-only workshop, held annually at the UC San Diego. In her talk, Prof. Dolecek discusses the role of channel coding in modern decentralized data systems such...

Prof. Dolecek is a Program Chair at NVMW 2021

Prof. Dolecek is a Program Chair at NVMW 2021

Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW) traditionally brings together scientists and engineers from industry and academia who are working on advanced non-volatile storage devices and systems.  The workshop facilitates the exchange of ideas, insights, and knowledge...

Recent Awards and Recognitions

Best Paper Award from the IEEE Data Storage Society

Best Paper Award from the IEEE Data Storage Society

Our research team has been recognized with the 2018-2019 Best Student Paper Award from the IEEE Data Storage Society for the paper: A. Hareedy, C. Lanka, N. Guo, and L. Dolecek, “A Combinatorial Methodology for Optimizing Non-Binary Graph-Based Codes: Theoretical...

New NSF Funding on Quantum Information Systems

New NSF Funding on Quantum Information Systems

NSF funds our new project titled "Towards full photon utilization by adaptive modulation and coding on quantum links". This project is developed in collaboration with Prof. Chee Wei Wong (UCLA) and Prof. Emina Soljanin (Rutgers). For more information, see NSF release...

Debarnab Mitra Wins Outstanding Masters Thesis Award

Debarnab Mitra Wins Outstanding Masters Thesis Award

Debarnab Mitra is the recipient of the 2019-2020 Outstanding Masters Thesis Award in Signals and Systems for his research on erasure codes for block chain systems. Congratulations Debarnab! UCLA Engineering press release is here:...