News
May 2019
- Thank you NSF for my
ongoing support! New NSF Medium grant on the Delay, Rate, Reliability Tradeoffs in Broadcast Channels, together with the lovely folks from the
NICEST lab.
April 2019
- Gave three talks on Interactive Communications at UT Austin, Texas A&M, and University of North Texas as part of my Texan tour as an IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer. Thank you to all my gracious hosts.
- Congratulations Ph.D. student
Kenneth Palacio-Baus for being the first author on two accepted
ISIT 2019 papers (he has two at ISIT 2018 as well). This Ecuadorian is on fire. See you in Paris.
January 2019
- Honored to be selected as an
IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer for the 2019-2020 period.
- Narueporn Nartasilpa defended her thesis, well done Narueporn!
August 2018
- Thank you NSF for my
ongoing support! New grant on the Fundamental Limits of Interactive Communications.
- Will be teaching ECE 534 Information Theory this Fall 2018.
- Sara Shahi defended her thesis and is off to Qualcomm. Wishing you all the best Sara!
April 2018
- 3 papers at ISIT 2018 (available in
Publications). See you in Vail, Colorado this June!
October 2017
- Attending Allerton 2017 to present the invited paper on
zero-error communication over noisy channels.
- Paper on
zero-error relaying for the primitive relay channel accepted to the IEEE Trans. on Information Theory.
August 2017
- Am teaching
ECE 534 Information Theory again!
- Participated in
Women in Science Summer Program
- Became an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
January 2017
-
Meysam Asadi joined my group as a post-doc. Welcome Meysam!
- Hosting
Matthew Nokleby for an ECE Seminar Series talk on
Information Theoretic Limits of Machine Learning, Friday January 27, 2017.
October 2016
- started a new
lunch-time seminar series on teaching for the ECE department. Let's help each other teach better.
September 2016
-
apply for a post-doctoral position under my supervision. It is on the zero-error capacity of relay channels.
- the IEEE ITSOC Chicago chapter is having an
event in honor of Shannon's Centenary on September 23, 2016.
August 2016
- I am the new Director of Undergraduate Studies (
DUGS) for UIC's ECE Department. Use email
dugs@ece.uic.edu for such matters.
- I am back from sabbatical. If you're interested in hearing about sabbaticals abroad with 2 young children, ask me about it sometime.
- I will be teaching ECE 341: Probability and Random Processes for Engineers this Fall 2016.
July 2016
- I gratefully acknowledge NSF's
ongoing support, a new grant on the
zero-error relay channel. If you are interested in the zero-error capacity of networks and looking for a post-doc, send me an email.
- at
ISIT 2016, I'm co-organizing a Women in Information Theory Society (WITHITS) event,
WITHITS at ISIT 2016: the Samoan Circle Event. Drop by Monday at lunch!
June 2016
- Just gave a 2.5 hour tutorial on the interference channel at the
2016 North American School of Information Theory. Here are the
slides and
handout.
- We have a new IEEE ITSOC Chicago chapter! I am the interim head. We will have an event in honor of
Shannon's centenary in Chicago in September 2016.
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Here is a directory of Women in Information Theory that I run, please go add yourself! I am currently a co-chair of the Information Theory Society's
WITHITS committee.
- Will be a lecturer at the
2016 North American School of Information Theory held June 21-23, 2016 at Duke University
April 2016 Women in information theory: join the new
WITHITS google group
here
January 2016 I, together with Professors Tuninetti and Erricolo, have a post-doctoral position opening starting immediately. Please see
here for topic and instructions. POSITION FILLED.
December 2015 I am looking for one Ph.D. student to start in Fall 2016 interested in working on network information theory. Please send me an email with title "Interested in network information theory" with your CV and why you are interested in this area. POSITION FILLED.
August 2015 Am now an Associate Professor (tenure). Thank you UIC, it's a pleasure working here!
May 2015 On sabbatical with husband and 2 kids. Stops include Belgium, Sweden, Singapore, Hong Kong, Kyoto, New Zealand (Christchurch, Dunedin), Lausanne, Geneva.
August 2014
- I gratefully acknowledge NSF's
ongoing support, 2 new grants:
NSF CIF Small: Network Capacity when Some Common Information Theoretic Assumptions Break Down and
NSF EARS: Collaborative Research: Let's share CommRad -- spectrum sharing between communications and radar systems
January 2014 Baby #2 is born: welcome Oskar Sebastian Eriksson!
August 2013
- I will be teaching
ECE 534: Elements of Information Theory in the Fall 2013 semester
January 2013
- Named
UIC Researcher of the Year, ``Rising Star'' in Natural Sciences and Engineering Thank you UIC, it's a pleasure working here!
September 2012
- Baby #1 is born: welcome Matilda Veronika Eriksson!
July 2012
- I gratefully acknowledge NSF's
ongoing support -- new grant
CIF Small: Wireless Relay Networks: Coding Above Capacity and Exploiting Structure
June 2012
- invited seminar entitled ``To adapt or not in two-way interference channels?'' to
Workshop on Interference Networks held at Boston University, June 30, 2012. Slides found in
Presentations.
May 2012
-
Dr. Urs Niesen, from Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent will be giving a talk at 4pm in SEO 636 on "Interference Alignment: From Degrees-of-Freedom to Constant-Gap Capacity Approximations", see
abstract and bio.
January 2012
- I am organizing a workshop on
Interactive Information Theory from January 15 - 20, 2012 in Banff, Canada. The
Banff International Research Station is a spectacular place and gives mathematically oriented researchers spectacular opportunitites. Thank you Canada!
- I will be teaching ECE 341: Probability and Random Processes for Engineers in the Spring 2012 semester.
August 2011
- the
2012 IEEE Communications Theory Workshop will be held in Ka'anapali, Maui, Hawaii, from May 14-16, 2012. Should be great!
- Teaching
ECE 534: Information Theory this semester
- attended the wonderful
BIRS workshop on Algebraic Structure In Network Information Theory Slides found in
Presentations
June 2011
- N. Devroye, and P. Popovski,
``Receiver-side Opportunism in Cognitive Networks,'' International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CROWNCOM), Osaka, June 2011 won the BEST PAPER AWARD.
slides
February 2011
- 2011 Communication Theory Workshop in Sitges, Catalonia; June 20-22, 2011 should be great! (I am on the organizing committee....), see
poster
January 2011
- I gratefully acknowledge NSF's support --
CAREER: Foundations of Two-way Communication Networks UIC article
December 2010
- We have a new
faculty position opening in the ECE department at UIC.
November 2010
-
Professor Daniela Tuninetti and I have two new Research Assistant openings for students interested in pursuing a Ph.D. under us on a project in network information theory. See this
poster to apply for Fall 2011 admission (apply to ECE Ph.D. program as well as e-mail us).
- I will be teaching ECE 531 Detection and Estimation in the Spring 2011 semester.
October 2010
-
Aydin Sezgin from Ulm University, will be giving a talk `` On the Capacity of Gaussian Multiple Access Channels with Interference,'' from 11am-noon on Monday October 4 in SEO 1000. Please see the
abstract and bio.
September 2010
- FILLED -- I NO LONGER have a new Research Assistant opening for students interested in pursuing a Ph.D. under me on a neat new project combining radar signal processing, sensor scheduling and information theory. See this
poster to apply ASAP for Spring 2011 or Fall 2011 admission.
-
Bobak Nazer from U-Wisconsin, Madison, soon to be joining Boston Universi