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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Lara Dolecek is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Computer Science, with a strong emphasis on Computer Networks and Communications, as well as related subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Hardware and Architecture, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics covered in Lara Dolecek's work include:

  • Error Correcting Code Techniques
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Caching and Content Delivery
  • Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture

The scientist has published extensively, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory

Among recent papers, several notable works include:

  • Exploiting Errors for Efficiency (2020), published in ACM Computing Surveys
  • Polar Coded Merkle Tree: Improved Detection of Data Availability Attacks in Blockchain Systems (2022), published in the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
  • Overcoming Data Availability Attacks in Blockchain Systems: Short Code-Length LDPC Code Design for Coded Merkle Tree (2022), published in IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • Variable Coded Batch Matrix Multiplication (2022), published in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
  • Breaking the Computational Bottleneck: Probabilistic Optimization of High-Memory Spatially-Coupled Codes (2022), published in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lara Dolecek include:

  • Lev Tauz
  • Debarnab Mitra
  • Siyi Yang
  • Ahmed Hareedy
  • Homa Esfahanizadeh

Lara Dolecek's contributions have been recognized through awards such as the Hellman Fellow in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Analysis of Absorbing Sets and Fully Absorbing Sets of Array-Based LDPC Codes

    L. Dolecek;Zhengya Zhang;V. Anantharam;M.J. Wainwright

  • Underdesigned and Opportunistic Computing in Presence of Hardware Variability

    P. Gupta;Y. Agarwal;L. Dolecek;N. Dutt

  • Breaking the simulation barrier: SRAM evaluation through norm minimization

    Lara Dolecek;Masood Qazi;Devavrat Shah;Anantha Chandrakasan

  • Design of LDPC decoders for improved low error rate performance: quantization and algorithm choices

    Zhengya Zhang;L. Dolecek;B. Nikolic;V. Anantharam

  • GEN03-6: Investigation of Error Floors of Structured Low-Density Parity-Check Codes by Hardware Emulation

    Zhengya Zhang;Lara Dolecek;Borivoje Nikolic;Venkat Anantharam

  • Spatially coupled sparse codes on graphs: theory and practice

    Daniel J. Costello;Lara Dolecek;Thomas E. Fuja;Joerg Kliewer

  • Non-Binary Protograph-Based LDPC Codes: Enumerators, Analysis, and Designs

    Lara Dolecek;Dariush Divsalar;Yizeng Sun;Behzad Amiri

  • Lowering LDPC Error Floors by Postprocessing

    Zhengya Zhang;L. Dolecek;B. Nikolic;V. Anantharam

  • Analysis of Absorbing Sets for Array-Based LDPC Codes

    L. Dolecek;Zhengya Zhang;V. Anantharam;M. Wainwright

  • Predicting error floors of structured LDPC codes: deterministic bounds and estimates

    L. Dolecek;P. Lee;Zhengya Zhang;V. Anantharam

  • Loop flattening & spherical sampling: highly efficient model reduction techniques for SRAM yield analysis

    Masood Qazi;Mehul Tikekar;Lara Dolecek;Devavrat Shah

  • Gallager B Decoder on Noisy Hardware

    S. M. Sadegh Tabatabaei Yazdi;Hyungmin Cho;L. Dolecek

  • Exact Reconstruction From Insertions in Synchronization Codes

    Frederic Sala;Ryan Gabrys;Clayton Schoeny;Lara Dolecek

  • Dynamic Threshold Schemes for Multi-Level Non-Volatile Memories

    F. Sala;R. Gabrys;L. Dolecek

  • REPETITION ERROR CORRECTING SETS: EXPLICIT CONSTRUCTIONS AND PREFIXING METHODS

    Lara Dolecek;Venkat Anantharam

  • Evaluation of the Low Frame Error Rate Performance of LDPC Codes Using Importance Sampling

    L. Dolecek;Zhengya Zhang;M. Wainwright;V. Anantharam

  • Detecting and Counteracting Statistical Attacks in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing

    F. Penna;Yifan Sun;L. Dolecek;D. Cabric

  • Quantization Effects in Low-Density Parity-Check Decoders

    Zhengya Zhang;L. Dolecek;M. Wainwright;V. Anantharam

  • Gallager B LDPC Decoder with Transient and Permanent Errors

    Chu-Hsiang Huang;Yao Li;Lara Dolecek

  • Graded Bit-Error-Correcting Codes With Applications to Flash Memory

    R. Gabrys;E. Yaakobi;L. Dolecek

  • Analysis and Enumeration of Absorbing Sets for Non-Binary Graph-Based Codes

    Behzad Amiri;Jorg Kliewer;Lara Dolecek

  • Exploiting Errors for Efficiency: A Survey from Circuits to Applications

    Phillip Stanley-Marbell;Armin Alaghi;Michael Carbin;Eva Darulova

Frequent Co-Authors

Venkat Anantharam
Venkat Anantharam University of California, Berkeley
Zhengya Zhang
Zhengya Zhang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Dariush Divsalar
Dariush Divsalar Jet Propulsion Lab
Puneet Gupta
Puneet Gupta University of California, Los Angeles
Borivoje Nikolic
Borivoje Nikolic University of California, Berkeley
Eitan Yaakobi
Eitan Yaakobi Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Richard D. Wesel
Richard D. Wesel University of California, Los Angeles

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