2021 IEEE North American School of Information Theory

Debarnab Mitra, Concentrated Stopping Set Design for Coded Merkle Tree: Improving Security Against Data Availability Attacks in Blockchain Systems

Fabrizio Carpi, Single-Shot Compression for Hypothesis Testing

Anindya Bijoy Das, Coded Sparse Matrix Computation Schemes That Leverage Partial Stragglers

Raaz Dwivedi, Revisiting Complexity and the Bias-Variance Tradeoff

Irem Ergun, Distributed Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

Nahid Esmati, Private Linear Transformation: The Single Server Case

Konstantinos Konstantinidis, ByzShield: An Efficient and Robust System for Distributed Training

Ning Zhang, Attributed Graph Alignment

Bo Guan, Superstring-Based Sequence Obfuscation to Thwart Pattern Matching Attacks

Mahshad Shariatnasab, On Graph Matching Using Generalized Seed Side-Information

Nishant Mehrotra, DoF Region for Joint Imaging & Uplink Communication

Noah Brüstle, Variations on the Magic Square Game and Their Communication Class

Yinbin Ma, A General Coded Caching Scheme for Scalar Linear Function Retrieval

Somalatha U, Role of Shared Key for Secure Communication over 2-User Gaussian Z-Interference Channel

Serhat Bakirtas, Database Matching Under Column Deletions

Hibatallah Alwazani, Channel Estimation for Distributed Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Assisted Multi-User MISO Systems

Shraddha Sahoo, Finite Block Length Achievable Rates for Interference Limited Scenarios’

Deeraj Kumar, Finite Block Length Information Theory and Its Importance in Mission Critical Applications

Sarah Bahanshal, Binary Decomposition and Coding Schemes for the Peak-Constrained IM/DD Channel

Siyao Li, A Control-Theoretic Linear Coding Scheme for the Fading Gaussian Broadcast Channel with Feedback

Mobina Mobaraki, Vision- Based Real-Time Seam Tracking and Defect Detection in GMAW Fillet Welding Process Using Neural Networks

Ziao Wang, Universal Graph Compression: Stochastic Block Models

Ruowen Bai, Kramers-Kronig Based Optical OFDM for Bandlimited Visible Light Communications

Jovana Plavsic, Visualization of Digital Twin Data

Morteza Shoushtari, Caching for Secrecy over the Binary Erasure Wiretap Channel

Anuj Yadav and Manideep Mamindlapally, Role of Costs in Commitment over Noisy Channels

Reza Rafie Borujeny, A Perturbative Channel Model for Optical Fiber

Matias Pinto, Swarm Intelligence for Decentralized Decision Making in Mining

Minoh Jeong, Permutation Recovery by Linear Decoding: Optimality and Asymptotics

Sarthak Jain, Scheduling and Relaying for Half-Duplex Wireless Networks: Efficiency and Optimality

Deborsi Basu, Dynamic Network Slicing and VNF Embedding in QoS-Aware Softwarized 5G Networks

Jian-Jia Weng, An Information Bottleneck Problem with Rényi's Entropy

Ecenaz Erdemir, Active Privacy-Utility Trade-Off Against a Hypothesis Testing Adversary

Zhenyu Zhang, On Implementing a Neural Network Based Costa's Dirty Paper Coding Scheme

Haoyue Tang, Cache Updating Strategy Minimizing the Age of Information with Time-Varying Files’ Popularities

Nourhan Hesham, The Average Coding Rate of Large-Scale Wireless Networks in the Finite Block-Length Regime

Sourbh Bhadane, Principal Bit Analysis: Autoencoding with Schur-Concave Loss

Borna Sayedana, Cross-Layer Communication over Fading Channels with Adaptive Decision Feedback

Ningze Wang, Multi-Message Private Information Retrieval Using Random Input Key

Neha Sangwan, Communication with Adversary Identification in Byzantine Multiple Access Channels

Bharath Shamasundar, Spectral Efficiency of Multi-Antenna Index Modulation

Neel Gandhi, Training Quantum Machine Learning Models with Aid of Kernels

Surabhi Garudangiri Dayananda, Orthogonal Time Frequency Space Modulation (OTFS)

Reent Schlegel, Privacy-Preserving Coded Mobile Edge Computing for Low-Latency Distributed Inference

Mahmoud Hasabelnaby, End-To-End Rate Enhancement in C-RAN Using Multi-Pair Two-Way Computation

Tao Jiang, Learning to Reflect and to Beamform for Intelligent Reflecting Surface with Implicit Channel Estimation

Kareem Attiah, Deep Learning for Distributed Channel Feedback and Multiuser Precoding in FDD Massive MIMO

Hassan ZivariFard, Keyless Covert Communication via Channel State Information

Ammarah Kaderdina, Improving Diagnosis of Developmental Hip Dysplasia Using Location-Tagged 2D Ultrasound

Ziteng Sun, Interactive Inference Under Information Constraints