2024 Canadian Workshop of Information Theory
Schedule
Detailed program
Sunday, June 2Sunday, June 2 12:00 - 14:00Tutorial 1: Provable Dimensionality Reduction and its ApplicationsSunday, June 2 14:00 - 15:00Lunch break (box lunch)Sunday, June 2 15:00 - 17:00Tutorial 2: Lossy Data Compression using Deep LearningSunday, June 2 19:00 - 21:00Welcome receptionMonday, June 3Monday, June 3 9:00 - 10:00Keynote 1: Coding for Fiber-Optic CommunicationsMonday, June 3 10:00 - 10:30Coffee breakMonday, June 3 10:30 - 12:10M1: Integrated Sensing and Communications
- 10:30 Non-coherent Over-the-Air Consensus for Wireless Decentralized Learning
Nicolò Michelusi (Arizona State University, USA)
- 10:50 Beamforming Design for Integrated Sensing and Communications Using Uplink-Downlink Duality
Kareem M. Attiah (University of Toronto & Faculty of Engineering, Canada); Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
- 11:10 Secure Communication with Moving Eavesdropper Using Integrated Sensing and Communication
Ahmed A. A. Al-Habob and Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada); Yindi Jing (University of Alberta, Canada)
- 11:30 Joint Design of Beamforming and Reflection Coefficients in Integrated Sensing and Backscatter Communication Systems
Shayan Zargari and Diluka Galappaththige (University of Alberta, Canada); Chintha Tellambura (The University of Alberta, Canada)
- 11:50 Localization in Multipath Environments via Active Sensing with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Yinghan Li and Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
Monday, June 3 12:10 - 13:30Lunch break (box lunch)Monday, June 3 13:30 - 14:30Keynote 2: Zeroth-Order Optimization: An Information Theoretic PerspectiveMonday, June 3 14:30 - 14:50Coffee breakMonday, June 3 14:50 - 16:30M2: Multi-user/Multi-terminal Communication
- 14:50 Efficient Resource Management in Uplink Symbiotic and Cooperative Backscatter Networks
Azar Hakimi and Shayan Zargari (University of Alberta, Canada); Chintha Tellambura (The University of Alberta, Canada)
- 15:10 Achievable Rate Regions for Multiple-Time-Slot Multiple Access Computation Offloading
Xiaomeng Liu and Timothy N. Davidson (McMaster University, Canada)
- 15:30 An Array Receiver Based on Two-Layer $J$-Best Selection / Maximal-Ratio Combining
Sebastien Roy (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)
- 15:50 Coded Downlink Massive Random Access
Ryan Song (University of Toronto, Canada); Kareem M. Attiah (University of Toronto & Faculty of Engineering, Canada); Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)
- 16:10 A Graph Neural Network Approach for Phase Shifter Network Online Calibration
Idan Roth (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Lutz Lampe (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Monday, June 3 16:30 - 16:50Coffee breakMonday, June 3 16:50 - 18:10M3: THz and Optical Communication
- 16:50 Adaptive Optics using Single Pixel Imagers for Atmospheric Laser Satellite Downlinks
Mohamadreza Pashazanoosi and Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada); Oliver J Pitts (National Research Council Canada, Canada); Costel Flueraru (National Research Council of Canada, Canada); Antony Orth (National Research Council Canada, Canada)
- 17:10 Channel Estimation for Wideband Terahertz MIMO using Pulse Spectroscopy
Ayush Madhan-Sohini and Adebola Olutayo (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Anas Chaaban (University of British Columbia, Canada); Jonathan F. Holzman (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
- 17:30 Square-Wave Spatial Optical OFDM
Zhenyu Zhang and Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
- 17:50 Precoding for Optical Wireless MISO Broadcasting
Zhenyu Zhang (McMaster University, Canada); Anas Chaaban (University of British Columbia, Canada); Steve Hranilovic (McMaster University, Canada)
Monday, June 3 18:30 - 20:30CSIT meeting and light dinner (Sushi)Tuesday, June 4Tuesday, June 4 9:00 - 10:00Keynote 3: On Getting Higher Resolution with Fewer Bits: Information Theoretic Perspectives on ADC ArchitectureTuesday, June 4 10:00 - 10:30Coffee breakTuesday, June 4 10:30 - 12:40T1: Coding/Information Theory
- 10:30 New results on MDP convolutional codes
Zitan Chen (CUHK-Shenzhen, China)
- 10:50 Byzantine-Tolerant Erasure Coding for Blockchains
Mohammad Jalalzai, Saeid Yazdinejad and Chen Feng (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- 11:10 Optimal single-letter codes are Kelly bets
Andrew Eckford (York University, Canada); Alexander S Moffett (Northeastern University, USA)
- 11:30
- 11:40 Sparse Gaussian Gradient Code
Yuxin Jiang (University of British Columbia, Canada); Wenqin Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Canada); Yuan Luo (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Lele Wang (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- 12:00 New Proofs of the Kochen-Specker Theorem via Hadamard Matrices
Liam Salt and Petr Lisonek (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- 12:20 Extended and Entanglement-assisted Quantum Quasi-twisted Codes
Akram Saleh (Concordia University, Canada); M. Reza Soleymani (Concordia Univerisity, Canada)
Tuesday, June 4 12:40 - 14:00Lunch break (box lunch)Tuesday, June 4 14:00 - 15:00Keynote 4: Low-bandwidth computation on top of error correctionTuesday, June 4 15:00 - 15:30Coffee breakTuesday, June 4 15:30 - 17:40T2: Data Science and Machine Learning
- 15:30 Model Selection Over Partially Ordered Sets
Armeen Taeb (University of Washington, USA)
- 15:50 On f-Divergence Principled Domain Adaptation: An Improved Framework
Ziqiao Wang and Yongyi Mao (University of Ottawa, Canada)
- 16:10 An Information-Theoretic Framework for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
Wenliang Liu and Guanding Yu (Zhejiang University, China); Lele Wang and Renjie Liao (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- 16:30
- 16:40 Beyond Words: A Multimodal Exploration of Persuasion in Memes to Address Misinformation
Amirhossein Abaskohi, Amirhossein Dabiriaghdam, Lele Wang and Giuseppe Carenini (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- 17:00 Constructions for Nonadaptive Tropical Group Testing
Nicholas Kwan (University of Toronto, Canada)
- 17:20 PCR Group Testing with Disjunct Matrices
Guozheng Gong and Lele Wang (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Tuesday, June 4 19:00 - 22:00Workshop dinnerWednesday, June 5Wednesday, June 5 9:00 - 10:00Short tutorial: Understanding and improving the numerical optimization underlying modern machine learningWednesday, June 5 10:00 - 10:30Coffee breakWednesday, June 5 10:30 - 11:30W1: Coding/Information Theory
- 10:30 Dynamic Programming-Based Capacity Bounds for Deletion Channels
Hassan Khodaiemehr (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
- 10:50 In-Place Continuous Compression for Delay Tolerant Systems
Sanku Roy and Ioanis Nikolaidis (University of Alberta, Canada)
- 11:10 Boosting Graph Alignment Performance via Attribute Information
Ziao Wang (University of British Columbia, Canada); Weina Wang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA); Lele Wang (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Wednesday, June 5 11:40 - 12:40W2: Blockchain and Security
- 11:40 NIROPoK-Based Post-Quantum Sidechain Design on Ethereum
Hassan Khodaiemehr (The University of British Columbia, Canada); Chen Feng (University of British Columbia, Canada)
- 12:00 Merged Bitcoin: Increasing Blockchain Security by Combining Hashing Resources
Christopher Blake (No affiliation); David Tse (Stanford University, USA)
- 12:20 Scaling Blockchain from First Principles
Tianyu Shi and Chen Feng (University of British Columbia, Canada)
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