Awards and recognitions

Our team has received numerous awards and recognitions.

Research Paper Awards

  • Memorable Paper Award at the 2021 Non-Volatile Memories Workshop, UC San Diego by L. Tauz, H. Esfahanizadeh, and L. Dolecek, “Non-Uniform Window Decoding for Multi- Dimensional Spatially-Coupled LDPC Codes,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Los Angeles, CA, Jun. 2020.
  • IEEE Data Storage Society Best 2019 Student Paper Award for the paper A. Hareedy, C. Lanka, N. Guo, and L. Dolecek, “A Combinatorial Methodology for Optimizing Non-Binary Graph-Based Codes: Theoretical Analysis and Applications in Data Storage,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65 (4), pp. 2128 — 2154, Apr. 2019.
  • Runner-up for the Memorable Paper Award at the 2019 Non-Volatile Memories Workshop, UC San Diego by Z. Chen, C. Schoeny, and L. Dolecek, “Coding Assisted Adaptive Thresholding for Sneak-Path Mitigation in Resistive Memories,”   in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Guongzhou, China, Nov. 2018.
  • Memorable Paper Award at the 2018 Non-Volatile Memories Workshop, UC San Diego by A. Hareedy, H. Esfahanizadeh, L. Dolecek, “High performance spatially coupled codes for flash memories,”   in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov. 2017.
  • Runner-up for the Memorable Paper Award at the 2018 Non-Volatile Memories Workshop, UC San Diego by S. Yang, C. Schoeny, and L. Dolecek, “Order-optimal permutation codes in the generalized Cayley metric,”  in Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov. 2017
  • Best of SELSE Paper Award, March 2018 for the paper by I. Alam, C. Schoeny, L. Dolecek, and P. Gupta, “Parity++: Lightweight Error Correction for Last Level Caches”, Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic System Effects (SELSE), March 2018.
  • Best Paper Award at the Embedded Systems Week – International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), Nov. 2017 for paper by M. Gottscho, I. Alam, C. Schoeny, L. Dolecek, P. Gupta, “Low-Cost Memory Fault Tolerance for IoT Devices,” ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 16(5). pp. 128:1– 128:25, Nov. 2017
  • IEEE Data Storage Society 2016 Best Student Paper Award for paper by R. Gabrys, E. Yaakobi, and L. Dolecek, “Correcting Grain-Errors in Magnetic Media,”IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 61 (5), pp.2256 — 2272, May 2015.
  • Best of SELSE Paper Award for paper by M. Gottscho, C. Schoeny, L. Dolecek and P. Gupta, “Software Defined Error-Correcting Codes”, Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic System Effects (SELSE), March 2016.
  • Best of SELSE Paper Award for paper by F. Sala, H. Duwe, L. Dolecek, and R. Kumar, “A Unified Framework for Error Correction Techniques in On-Chip Memories,” Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic System Effects (SELSE), March 2016.
  • Best Paper Award, 2015 IEEE Globecom Conference, for paper by A. Hareedy, B. Amiri, S. Zhao, R. Galbraith, and L. Dolecek, “Non-Binary LDPC Code Optimization for Partial Response Channels,”  in Proc. IEEE Globecom, Dec. 2015.

Prof. Dolecek’s Career Awards and Recognitions

  • Invited Lecturer, Croucher Foundation School of Information Theory, CUHK, Hong Kong, 2023.
  • Keynote Speaker at the ITA Workshop, UCSD, San Diego, CA, 2023.
  • Keynote Speaker at the Non-Volatile Memories Workshop, San Diego, CA, 2019.
  • Plenary Speaker at the IEEE International Symposium on Turbo Coding and Iterative Information Processing, Hong Kong, 2018.
  • Plenary Speaker at the American Mathematical Society Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2016.
  • Plenary Speaker at the IEEE International Symposium on Turbo Coding and Iterative Information Processing, Brest, France, 2016.
  • IBM Faculty Award, 2014.
  • Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, UCLA, 2013.
  • Intel Early Career Award, 2013.
  • Faculty Development Award, UCLA, 2013.
  • Okawa Foundation Research Grant, 2013, one of six nation-wide recipients for innovative research in Information Technologies.
  • NSF CAREER Grant, 2012.
  • Hellman Fellow, UCLA, 2011, a campus-wide program established to support promising assistant professors.
  • David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize For the Most Outstanding Dissertation in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, 2007.
  • Dissertation Year Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2006-2007.
  • GAANN Graduate Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2004-2005.
  • Mentored Research Award, UC Berkeley, 2003-2004.
  • Eugene Cota-Robles Multi-Year Fellowship for PhD studies, UC Berkeley, 2000-2003.
  • Marian Wojciech Para Memorial Prize, UC Berkeley, 1999.
  • Member of HKN, TBP, and Golden Key Honors Societies.
  • Senior Member of IEEE since 2012.

LORIS Student Awards

  • Best Dissertation Award, ECE Department, UCLA
    • Ahmed Hareedy, 2019
    • Clayton Schoeny, 2018
    • Fred Sala, 2017
  • Best Masters Thesis Award, ECE Department, UCLA
    • Fred Sala, 2014
    • Debarnab Mitra, 2020
  • Dissertation Year Fellowship
    • Debarnab Mitra, 2022-2023
    • Siyi (Prisca) Yang, 2020-2021
    • Homa Esfahanizadeh, 2018-2019
    • Clayton Schoeny, 2017-2018
    • Fred Sala, 2015-2016

 

  • Best Preliminary Examination Award, ECE Department, UCLA
    • Lev Tauz, 2019
    • Fred Sala, 2013
  • Excellence in Teaching Award (Best TA Award), ECE Department, UCLA
    • Ahmed Hareedy, 2016
    • Clayton Schoeny, 2015