2026 Lara Dolecek: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	31	13721	13306	5454	5190	236	3681

Lara Dolecek publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lara Dolecek sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 236 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Lara Dolecek D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lara Dolecek sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

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

236
Citations
Underdesigned and Opportunistic Computing in Presence of Hardware Variability

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

186
Citations
Breaking the simulation barrier: SRAM evaluation through norm minimization

Lara Dolecek;Masood Qazi;Devavrat Shah;Anantha Chandrakasan

148
Citations
Design of LDPC decoders for improved low error rate performance: quantization and algorithm choices

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

145
Citations
GEN03-6: Investigation of Error Floors of Structured Low-Density Parity-Check Codes by Hardware Emulation

Zhengya Zhang;Lara Dolecek;Borivoje Nikolic;Venkat Anantharam

124
Citations
Spatially coupled sparse codes on graphs: theory and practice

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

116
Citations
Non-Binary Protograph-Based LDPC Codes: Enumerators, Analysis, and Designs

Lara Dolecek;Dariush Divsalar;Yizeng Sun;Behzad Amiri

113
Citations
Lowering LDPC Error Floors by Postprocessing

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

110
Citations
Analysis of Absorbing Sets for Array-Based LDPC Codes

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

108
Citations
Predicting error floors of structured LDPC codes: deterministic bounds and estimates

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

107
Citations
Loop flattening & spherical sampling: highly efficient model reduction techniques for SRAM yield analysis

Masood Qazi;Mehul Tikekar;Lara Dolecek;Devavrat Shah

98
Citations
Gallager B Decoder on Noisy Hardware

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

84
Citations
Exact Reconstruction From Insertions in Synchronization Codes

Frederic Sala;Ryan Gabrys;Clayton Schoeny;Lara Dolecek

79
Citations
Dynamic Threshold Schemes for Multi-Level Non-Volatile Memories

F. Sala;R. Gabrys;L. Dolecek

78
Citations
REPETITION ERROR CORRECTING SETS: EXPLICIT CONSTRUCTIONS AND PREFIXING METHODS

Lara Dolecek;Venkat Anantharam

77
Citations
Evaluation of the Low Frame Error Rate Performance of LDPC Codes Using Importance Sampling

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

71
Citations
Detecting and Counteracting Statistical Attacks in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing

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

68
Citations
Quantization Effects in Low-Density Parity-Check Decoders

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

64
Citations
Gallager B LDPC Decoder with Transient and Permanent Errors

Chu-Hsiang Huang;Yao Li;Lara Dolecek

64
Citations
Graded Bit-Error-Correcting Codes With Applications to Flash Memory

R. Gabrys;E. Yaakobi;L. Dolecek

61
Citations
Analysis and Enumeration of Absorbing Sets for Non-Binary Graph-Based Codes

Behzad Amiri;Jorg Kliewer;Lara Dolecek

51
Citations
Exploiting Errors for Efficiency: A Survey from Circuits to Applications

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

47
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Venkat Anantharam University of California, Berkeley

Zhengya Zhang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Dariush Divsalar Jet Propulsion Lab

Puneet Gupta University of California, Los Angeles

Martin J. Wainwright MIT

Borivoje Nikolic University of California, Berkeley

Eitan Yaakobi Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Richard D. Wesel University of California, Los Angeles

Devavrat Shah MIT

Anantha P. Chandrakasan MIT

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