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Prof Tuninetti's ISIT 2021 tutorial on "Distributed Function Retrieval: a Storage and Privacy Prospective"

Prof. Tuninetti and collaborators Profs M. Ji and H. Sun have been selected to deliver the tutorial on “Distributed Function Retrieval: a Storage and Privacy Prospective” at the upcoming 2021 IEEE International Symposium…

Prof Tuninetti is now an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, starting Jan 2021

Dr Tuninetti joined the editorial team of IEEE Transactions on Communications starting Jan 2021. She will be responsible for coded caching and coded distributed computing.

Talk "A Brief History of (Cellular) Wireless Communications" Saturday, December 5 2020, 11am Central Time

A Brief History of Wireless Communications, a Zoom Webinar by panelist Dr Daniela Tuninetti and moderated by Dr Elenora Forte, Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. Presented and organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and the Chicago…

Prof Tuninetti elevated to IEEE Fellow effective Jan 1st, 2021

Dr Daniela Tuninetti has been elevated to IEEE Fellow effective January 1st 2021, with the following citation: “for contributions to theory of repetition protocols and wireless interference management“. IEEE Fellow is a distinction…

Prof Tuninetti will offer "ECE 594 - Special Topics: Network Information Theory" in Spring 2021

More info and tentative schedule here   Instructor: Daniela Tuninetti, danielat@uic.edu   Description: Information Theory is a branch of applied mathematics, electrical engineering, and computer science involving the quantification of information. Network Information…

Prof. Daniela Tuninetti's Distinguished Lecturer's talk @ IEEE Chicago Section

Prof. Daniela Tuninetti will give a talk at UIC as ITSoc DL, September 18, 2020. Title: Content-Secure and Demand-Private Coded Caching Abstract: Caching is known to significantly reduce the communication load over bottleneck links by…

Congratulations to Alex Dytso, Assistant Professor at NJIT

Congratulation to our former lab member Dr Alex Dytso for a faculty position at the New Jersey  Institute of Technology. We are very proud of Alex’s achievements and we wish him all the…

Congratulations to Ishita Basu, Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati

Congratulation to our former lab member Dr Ishita Basu for a faculty position at the University of Cincinnati. We are very proud of Ishita’s achievements and we wish her all the best in…

Siayo Li's talk at ISIT 2020

Please find our ISIT 2020 – The Fading Gaussian Broadcast Channel with Channel State Information and Output Feedback presentation at Video https://www.dropbox.com/s/v9ky93kw0m8ndeo/ISIT-SL.mp4?dl=0 IEEExplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9173934

Dr. Kai Wan's talk at ISIT 2020 - 2 of 2

Please find our ISIT 2020 – Cache-Aided Scalar Linear Function Retrieval presentation at Video https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vwab7csznc7fu8/ISIT20_Function retrieval_Kai.mp4?dl=0 IEEExplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9173997 arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03577  

Dr. Kai Wan's talk at ISIT 2020 - 1 of 2

Please find our ISIT 2020 – Novel Converse for Device-to-Device Demand-Private Caching with a Trusted Server presentation at Video https://www.dropbox.com/s/ib09ycl5iqpdshz/ISIT20_D2D presentation_Kai.mp4?dl=0 IEEExplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9174279 arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12748    

Dr. Tang Liu's talk at ISIT 2020

Please find our ISIT 2020 – Secure Decentralized Pliable Index Coding presentation at Video https://www.dropbox.com/s/5kxqepgljqldc2l/ISIT presentation v2.mp4?dl=0 IEEExplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9173957 arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.03810  

Prof. Tuninetti's talk at ICC 2020

Please find our ICC 2020 – Device-to-Device Private Caching with Trusted Server presentation at Video https://www.dropbox.com/s/hrm450jwiahama5/1570604428.mp4?dl=0 IEEExplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9149038 arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12748

Congratulations to Dr Tang Liu

Tang Liu defended his PhD thesis “Pliable Index Coding” on Nov 19, 2019. Congratulations Dr Liu!   Abstract: The Pliable Index Coding (PICOD) problem is a variant of the Index Coding (IC) problem. The…

Prof. Tuninetti gives talks at Tsinghua University, Xidian University, and Xi'an Jiaotong University in Oct 2019

It was great to visit China, promote our China Programs, and talk about our latest work on distributed data shuffling and D2D private coded caching. 

Prof. Tuninetti named 2020-2021 Distinguished Lecturers for the IEEE Information Theory Society

Prof. Tuninetti is among a group of five scholars named Distinguished Lecturers for the IEEE Information Theory Society for the term 2020-2021. The announcement was made at the Board of Governors meeting of…

Prof. Tuninetti speaks at the SWEet Beginning Brunch, on Sept 7 2019

The Women in Engineering Programs at UIC (WIEP) held its annual “Sweet Beginnings Brunch” on September 7, 2019. This event is to welcome new students, and to kick-off the new academic year. A big thank you…

Balancing delay, transmission rate, and reliability in data transmission

A story about our new NSF $1.2M grant on (latency, reliability, rate) tradeoff in downlink wireless systems appeared on the department’s news page. Please check it our if you are curious about our…

Prof. Daniela Tuninetti, interim ECE Department Head as of August 16, 2019

On July 16, 2019, Dean P. Nelson announced “I am pleased to announce that your esteemed colleague Professor Daniela Tuninetti has accepted the position of interim ECE Department Head, effective one month from…

New NSF grant - Prof. Daniela Tuninetti

NSF Award #1910309.  CIF: Small: Fundamental Tradeoffs Between Communication Load and Storage Resources in Distributed systems. Sole PI, Prof Daniela Tuninetti

Our paper “A Unified Beam-forming and A/D Self- Interference Cancellation Design for Full Duplex MIMO Radios” is accepted by IEEE PIMRC, 2019

This work is funded by NSF/CCF/CIF CAREER award #1620902. This is a joint work with Prof. George C. Alexandropoulos from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens  http://www.alexandropoulos.info.

Openings

Several postdoctoral positions and Ph.D. positions are open within the NICEST lab at UIC. The positions are in the following areas of network information theory and communication theory: — coded caching and coded…

WIESP 2019 -- Networking Lunch

Prof. Daniela Tuninetti and Prof. Besma Smida gave a talk at the Women in Engineering Summer Program 2019. http://wiep.engr.uic.edu/wiesp/

Prof. Daniela Tuninetti's talk at Motorola

Prof. Daniela Tuninetti will give a talk at Motorola on June 28, 2019. Title: Distributed Coded Computations Abstract: Since Shannon’s landmark paper, codes have been successfully employed at the physical layer of communications systems to…

Three papers accepted for IEEE ITW, 2019

We are pleased to announced that the following papers have been accepted at ITW 2019.   Title: Private Pliable Index Coding Authors: Tang Liu, Daniela Tuninetti Pre-print arXiv:1904.04468.   Title: On The Stability Region of the…

New NSF grant - Natasha Devroye, Daniela Tuninetti, and Besma Smida

Professors Natasha Devroye, Daniela Tuninetti and Besma Smida were awarded a new $1.2 million NSF CIF Medium grant on the Delay, Rate, Reliability Tradeoffs in Broadcast Channels. 

See our video on Coded Computation for Internet of Things (IoT)

Our paper “Managing Background Traffic in Cellular Networks,” is accepted by IEEE LANMAN, 2019

H. Seferoglu serves as a co-chair of IEEE ICNP 2019. UIC will host ICNP on October 7-10, 2019. Please consider attending