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
Prof. Dolecek is elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society
Prof. Dolecek is a 2022-2024 elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society. For more information see https://www.itsoc.org/people/bog
Prof. Dolecek is named 2021-2022 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society
ITSoc link for additional information https://www.itsoc.org/resources/dlp/distinguished-lecturers
Prof. Dolecek is Area Director for Signals and Systems, ECE Department, UCLA
Prof. Dolecek has been appointed Area Director for Signals and Systems, ECE Department, UCLA.
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...
New journal paper on spatially coupled codes appears in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
The following paper on spatially coupled codes has been published: A. Hareedy, R. Wu, and L. Dolecek, “A Channel-Aware Combinatorial Approach to DesignHigh Performance Spatially-Coupled Codes for Magnetic Recording Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,...
Three papers to appear at ISIT 2020
Our research team will present three new research at the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT): S. Yang, A. Hareedy, R. Calderbank, and L. Dolecek, “Topology-Aware Cooperative Data Protection in Blockchain-Based Decentralized Storage...
Recent Awards and Recognitions
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
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 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:...