Enrolled students are expected to participate in class by attending seminars on a regular basis.
Each student will be assigned to write one detailed summary of a talk they attended during the course of the semester. The course is available for 1 unit on CR/NC basis (no letter grade).
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host |
| Wed Jan 16, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Design Guidelines for Limited Feedback in Interference-Limited Systems | Vasanthan Raghavan (USC Math) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Jan 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Randomized Methods in Game Theory with Applications to Network Security | Joao Hespanha (UCSB) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Jan 30, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Optimal receivers and rate regions for interference networks with superposition codes | Bernd Bandemer (UCSD) | Giuseppe Caire |
| Wed Feb 6, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Interference Alignment, Interference Neutralization, and Function Computation over Gaussian Networks | Sangwoon Jeon (EPFL) | Giuseppe Caire |
| Wed Feb 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | No Seminar | UCSD ITA Workshop Week | No Seminar |
| Fri Feb 15, 11:00am. EEB 248 | Coding over Interference Channels- An Information-Estimation View | Shlomo Shamai (Technion) | Giuseppe Caire |
| Wed Feb 20, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Optimal Online Bin Packing in an Infinite Server System | Yuan Zhong (MIT) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Feb 27, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Constrained Signaling for Welfare and Revenue Maximization | Shaddin Dughmi (USC) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Mar 6, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Interference Management in Bursty Wireless Networks with Feedback | I-Hsiang Wang (EPFL) | Giuseppe Caire |
| Wed Mar 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | A Tensor Spectral Approach to Learning Mixed Membership Community Models | Anima Anandkumar (UCI) | Ubli Mitra |
| Wed Mar 20, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | No Seminar | Spring Break | No Seminar |
| Wed Mar 27, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Smarter Markets for a Smarter Grid - The Why and How | Rahul Jain | Ubli Mitra |
| Wed Apr 3, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Cognitive Access Policies under a Primary ARQ process via Chain Decoding | Nicolò Michelusi (USC) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Apr 10, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Networked Information Processing- New Compression, Processing and Control Paradigms for Networks | Emrah Akyol (UCSB) | |
| Wed Apr 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Ambiguity in risk preferences in optimization and control | Will Haskell (USC) | |
| Wed Apr 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Pricing of Fluctuations in Electricity Markets | Yunjian Xu (Caltech) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed May 1, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Channel Coding Methods for Green Data Storage- Innovations Beyond the Hamming Metric | Lara Dolecek (UCLA) | Rahul Jain |
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host |
| Wed Aug 29, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Implementation of Cooperative Schemes with Network Coding on Smartphones | Anh Le (UCI) | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Sep 5, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Decentralized learning for multi-player multi-armed bandits | Dileep Kalathil (USC) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Sep 12, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Beyond Point-to-Point Coding | Young-Han Kim (UCSD) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Sep 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Three open problems in network communication. | Michael Langberg (The Open University of Israel) | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Sep 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | The Convex Geometry of Inverse Problems | Venkat Chandrasekaran (Caltech/MIT) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Oct 3, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | An Unexpected Universal Networking Paradigm | Ray Sanders (SAIN Networks) | Giuseppe Caire? |
| Wed Oct 10, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Regenerating Codes A System Perspective | Nicolas Le Scouarnec (Technicolor) | Alex Dimakis |
| Mon Oct 15, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Optimal Reliability over a DMC with Feedback via Deterministic Sequential Coding | Tara Javidi (UCSD) | Bhaskar Krishnamachari |
| Wed Oct 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Support Recovery with Sparsely Sampled Free Random Matrices | Dr. Antonia Tulino (Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs) | Giuseppe Caire |
| Wed Oct 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Online Learning Algorithms for Network Optimization with Unknown Variables | Yi Gai (USC) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Oct 31, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Lossy Compression for BigData- First Steps | Thomas Courtade( Center for Science of Information) | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Nov 2, 4:30pm. EEB 248 | Topological interference alignment through distributed index coding | Syed Ali Jafar (UCI) | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Nov 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | The Changing Energy Landscape- The Role of Consumer Participation | Ufuk Topcu (U-Penn) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Nov 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Time Consistency of Bounded Memory Plans | Yilmaz Kocer (USC Econ) | Bhaskar Krishnamachari |
| Wed Nov 21, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | An Analytical Approach to Regulation of Security Investments in the Internet | Arman Khouzani (Ohio State) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Nov 28, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Optimal Dynamic Mechanism Design | Hamid Nazerzadeh (USC Marshall) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Dec 5, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | From Compression to Compressed Sensing | Shirin Jalali (Caltech) | Rahul Jain |
| Fri Dec 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Graphical Congestion Games with Applications in Spectrum Sharing | Jianwei Huang (CUHK) | Rahul Jain |
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host |
| Wed Jan 11, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Error Correcting Codes for Automatic Control | Ravi Teja Sukhavasi (Caltech) | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Jan 18, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Coalitions in Cooperative Wireless Networks | Srinivas Yerramalli (USC) | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Jan 25, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Critically Sampled Wavelet Filterbanks on Graphs | Sunil Kumar (USC) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Feb 1, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Large Scale Integration of Deferrable Demand and Renewable
Energy Sources in Power Systems | Anthony Papavasiliou (Berkeley) | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Feb 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | ITA | ITA | ITA |
| Wed Feb 15, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | To Pay or Not To Pay. Profit Maximizing Payment Schemes on Social Media Platforms | Shaolei Ren (UCLA) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Feb 22, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Erasure Codes in Facebook's Data Warehouse | Ramkumar Vadali | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Feb 29, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Signal Processing for Next-Generation Sequencing and Biosensing | Haris Vikalo (UT Austin) | Ubli Mitra |
| Wed Mar 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Solving the Matched Filter Detector in Linear Time | Shamgar Gurevich (Wisconsin) | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Mar 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | No seminar | No Seminar | Spring Break |
| Wed Mar 21, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Infocom Practice talks | Multiple Speakers | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Mar 28, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | When to exercise control? | Paulo Tabauda (UCLA) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed April 4, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Linearly Parameterized Bandits | Paat Rusmevichientong (USC) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed April 11, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | A Novel Distance Metric for Rank Aggregation | Farzad Farnoud (UIUC) | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed April 18, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Inference and Control in Complex Networks | Vijay Subramanian (Northwestern) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed April 25, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | TBA | Harsha Honnappa (USC) | Rahul Jain |
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host |
| Wed Aug 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Noise Benefits in Markov Chains | Brandon Franzke (USC) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Aug 31, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Channel Estimation for Wideband Channels | Ubli Mitra (USC) | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Sep 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Energy Procurement Strategies in Presence of Intermittent Sources | Sachin Adlakha (Caltech) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Sep 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Toward a Computational Information Theory | Michelle Effros | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Sep 21, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Compressed Representations for Subsurface Imaging | Behnam Jafarpour (USC) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Sep 28, 2:30pm. EEB 248 | NO TALK | Allerton | No TALK |
| Wed Oct 5, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Reliable Allocations for Distributed Storage | Derek Leong | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Oct 12, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Space-from-Time Imaging - Acquiring Reflectance and Structure Without Lenses | Vivek Goyal (MIT) | Ubli Mitra/Antonio Ortega |
| Wed Oct 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Net Neutrality & Wireless Net Neutrality - Why Network Researchers Should Care | Scott Jordan (UCI) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Oct 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Privacy in the Smart Grid, Two New Challenges | Lalitha Sankar (Princeton) | Ubli Mitra |
| Wed Nov 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Decision-making in Decentralized Systems | Ashutosh Nayyar (UIUC/U-Mich) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Nov 9, 11:00pm. EEB 248 | (talk canceled) | | (Asilomar Conference) |
| Wed Nov 16, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | On source-channel separation over networks | Suhas Diggavi (UCLA) | Alex Dimakis |
| Wed Nov 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | No Seminar | | Thanksgiving |
| Wed Nov 30, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | A journey through data-rate theorems for communication and control | Massimo Franceschetti (UCSD) | Rahul Jain |
| Wed Dec 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | No Seminar | No Talk | Week of Finals |
| Wed Dec 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Toward Energy Efficient Operation of Base Stations in Cellular Wireless Networks | Kyuho Son (USC) | Alex Dimakis |
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host |
| January 12, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Utility Optimal Scheduling in Networks- Small Delay and No Underflow | Longbo Huang | Rahul Jain |
| January 19, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Role of Feedback in Interference Networks | Changho Suh | Alex Dimakis |
| January 26, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Bringing network coding closer to practice | Christina Fragouli | Alex Dimakis |
| January 27, 4:30pm. SAL 101 | Sparse Approximations- Algorithms and Analysis | Anna Gilbert | Alex Dimakis |
| February 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Recent results on discrete memoryless broadcast channels | Chandra Nair | Giuseppe Caire |
| February 9, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Title | ITA | N/A |
| February 16, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Delay and power-optimal control in multi-class queueing systems | Chih-ping Li | Rahul Jain |
| February 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Channel coding, non asymptotic fundamental limits with and without
feedback | Yury Polyanskiy | Urbashi Mitra |
| March 2, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | A Clean Slate Design of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using On Off Division Duplex | Dongning Guo | Alex Dimakis |
| March 9, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Robustness in High Dimensions -- Principal Component Analysis | Constantine Caramanis | Alex Dimakis |
| March 23, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Cooperative Information Exchange over Networks | Tom Courtade (UCLA) | Rahul Jain |
| March 30, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Wavelets on Graphs - Theory and Applications | Antonio Ortega (USC) | Rahul Jain |
| April 6, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | A New Approach to Robustness and Flexibility in High-dimensions | Sujay Sanghavi (UT Austin) | Rahul Jain |
| April 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Wireless Open-Access Research Program | Ashutosh Sabharwal (Rice) | Rahul Jain |
| April 20, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Rethinking wireless networks with network coding - Overhead and stability challenges | Yalin Sagduyu (Intelligent Automation, Inc.) | Alex Dimakis |
| April 27, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Content-Aware Caching and Traffic Management in Content Distribution Networks | Srinivas Shakkottai (Texas A&M) | Rahul Jain |
| May 11, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Network Modulation-- Simultaneous
Optimality in Multi-User Communication | Yuval Kochman | Giuseppe Caire |
| May 25, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | MDS Array Codes with Optimal Rebuilding | Zhiying Wang | Alex Dimakis |
| May 26, 2:00pm. TBD | Efficient Code Constructions for Reliable Distributed Storage | P Vijay Kumar | Alex Dimakis |
| June 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Multi-Channel Multi-Stage Spectrum Sensing- Link Layer
Performance and Energy Consumption | Przemysław Pawełczak | Bhaskar Krishnamachari |
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Thu. July 21, 10:00am. HED 116 | Cloud Security Issues | Randy Marchany |
| Wed Sep 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | No Seminar | No seminar |
| Wed Sep 15, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | TBA | Bathiya Senanyake (ANU) |
| Wed Sep 22, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Barrage Relay Networks | Keith Chugg |
| Fri Sep 24, 2:30pm. EEB 248 | Three fundamental measures of geometry and their role in model selection and sparse inverse problems | Waheed U. Bajwa |
| Tue Sep 28, 10:00am. TBA | Lattice Coding for Interference Networks | Sriram Viswanath |
| Wed Oct 6, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Short Range Radio Research in Twente | Arjan Meijerink, USC |
| Wed Oct 13, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | TBA | Dorit Hochbaum |
| Wed Oct 20, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Computation over Networks | Nikhil Karamchandani |
| Wed Oct 27, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Actions can speak more clearly than words | Pulkit Grover |
| Wed Nov 3, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Interference Management in Cognitive Networks with Reactive Primary Users | Marco Levorato |
| Fri Nov 12, 11:00pm. EEB 248 | Quantifying and Achieving the Capacity of Wireless 1-Hop
Network Coding --- A Code-Alignment-Based Approach | Chih-Chun Wang |
| Wed Nov 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Open | Open |
| Wed Nov 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Open | Open |
| Mon Nov 29, 11:00am. EEB 248 | Flows and Decompositions of Games - Harmonic and Potential Games | Pablo Parrillo |
| Wed Dec 1, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Open | Open |
| Wed Dec 8, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Open | Open |
| Date | Title | Speaker |
| Wed. Jan 13, 2010 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Backpressure Routing Made Practical | Scott Moeller, USC |
| Wed. Jan 20, 3:00pm. EEB 248 | Bumpless Transfer with Slow-Fast Controller Decomposition | Shin-Young Cheong, USC |
| Wed. Jan 27, 11:00am. EEB 248 | Wireless Network Coding Algorithms | Christina Fragouli |
| Thurs. Jan 28, 3.30pm. EEB 248 | Entropy, Networks and Information Flow | Babak Hassibi |
| Fri., Feb. 5, 11:00am. EEB 248 | An I-MMSE Perspective to the Capacity of the MIMO Gaussian Wiretap Channel | Shlomo Shamai |
| Wed. Feb 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Safe Industrial Operation: Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Alarm Systems | Tongwen Chen |
| Wed. Feb 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Event-triggered and Self-triggered Control | Paulo Tabuada |
| Wed. Mar 10, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Xampling-- Analog-to-digital at Sub-Nyquist rates | Yonina Eldar |
| Wed. Mar 17, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Three talks for the price of one:
1. Concatenated polar codes
2. Coding for causal adversaries
3. Robust network tomography | Sid Jaggi |
| Wed. Mar 24, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Learning from sensitive data-- balancing accuracy and privacy | Anand Sarwate |
| Wed. Mar 31, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Deterministic Channel Models: an Overview | Giuseppe Caire |
| Wed. Apr 7, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | TBD | Open |
| Wed. Apr 14, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Traffic pattern analysis and load balancing in negatively curved networks | Edmond A. Jonckheere |
| Wed. Apr 21, 3:00pm. EEB 248 | Multi-user Effort Allocation | Mihaela van der Schaar |
| Wed. Apr 28, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Using structural properties of rare events for better system design-- examples from codes and circuits | Lara Dolecek |
| Wed. May 5, 2:00pm. EEB 248 | Altruism, Selfishness, and Spite in Traffic Routing | Po-An Chen |
| Monday May 24, 2:00pm. HED 116, | A Rate-Distortion Perspective on Multiple
Decoding Attempts for Reed-Solomon Codes | Henry Pfister |
| Wed. June 2, 2:00pm. EEB 539 | Interference Alignment-- Principles and Applications | Viveck Cadambe |
| Wed. June 9, 2:00pm. room TBD | Deterministic Channel Models: an Overview 2 | Giuseppe Caire |
| Tue. June 15, 1:00pm. EEB 349 | Equality conditions for the quantum f-relative entropy and
generalized data processing inequalities | Naresh Sharma |
