Lara 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
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
Impact
Recent Research Results, Professional Service, and Teaching Activities
Three new IEEE BITS Magazine Papers – quantum, in-memory computing, data storage
We are excited to announce that we have recently published three magazine articles in IEEE BITS Magazine. L. Dolecek and Emina Soljanin, "QKD Based on Time-Entangled Photons and Its Key-Rate Promise," IEEE BITS Magazine, 2023. E. Dupraz, F. Leduc-Primeau, K. Cai, and...
Prof. Dolecek is an Invited Lecturer at the Croucher Summer Course on Information Theory, HK
Prof. Lara Dolecek is an invited lecturer at the Croucher Summer Course held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in August 2023. For more information, visit https://cscit.hk/cscit/
Prof. Dolecek is an Invited Lecturer at the European Summer School on Communications, Munich, Germany
Prof. Lara Dolecek is an Invited Lecturer at the European Summer School on Communications, Munich, Germany, June 2023, Lecture is titled “Graph Codes for Decentralized Adversarial Networks: Applications in Blockchains”. For more information, visit...
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...
LORIS Alumnus, Dr. Ahmed Hareedy joins METU as an Assistant Professor
Dr. Ahmed Hareedy (UCLA LORIS PhD 2018) joins METU, Turkey as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Ahmed!
Prof. Dolecek is TPC Co-Chair for 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Mumbai, India
Prof. Dolecek is a TPC Co-Chair of the 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) held in Mumbai, India on Nov 1- 9, 2022. ITW is a premier venue of the IEEE Information Theory Society, and returns to India for the first time in over 20 years. For more information on...
Prof. Dolecek delivers a plenary talk at Approximate Computing Workshop @ DAC 2022
Prof. Dolecek delivers a plenary talk titled "Overcoming Data Availability Attacks in Blockchain Systems: Graph-Based Code Design" at the Design and Automation Conference (DAC) in July 2022.
Recent Awards and Recognitions
New NSF Funding on Quantum Networks
NSF funds our new project titled "QuIC-TAQS: A high-dimensional multi-access scalable testbed for the interconnected quantum network." This project is in collaboration with several UCLA researchers, PI is Prof. Chee Wei Wong and a co-PI is Prof. Lara Dolecek. Research...
New NSF Funding on Versatile Data Synchronization
NSF funds our new project titled "Versatile Data Synchronization: Novel Codes and Algorithms for Practical Applications." This project is developed in collaboration with Profs. Farzad Farnoud (UVirginia) and Dr. Ryan Gabrys (UCSD). Research positions for postdocs and...
New NSF-BSF Funding on Sampling Channels and Blockchain Systems
NSF funds our new project titled "Reliable Data Storage on Sampling Channels." This project is developed in collaboration with Prof. Yuval Cassuto (Technion, Israel) through the NSF-BSF funding. Research positions for postdocs and graduate students available! For more...