M. Soleymani, R. E. Ali, H. Mahdavifar, A. S. Avestimehr, “ApproxIFER: A Model-Agnostic Approach to Resilient and Robust Prediction Serving Systems”, preprint, available here.
F. Abbasi, H. Mahdavifar, E. Viterbo, “Polar Coded Repetition”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications.
N. Charalambides, H. Mahdavifar, A. O. Hero III, “Numerically Stable Binary Coded Computations”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, available here.
J. Pang, H. Mahdavifar, and S. S. Pradhan, “Capacity-achieving Polar-based LDGM Codes”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, available here.
M. Fereydounian, M. V. Jamali, H. Hassani, and H. Mahdavifar, “Channel Coding at Low Capacity”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, available here.
Journal Publications
F. Abbasi, H. Mahdavifar, E. Viterbo, “Hybrid Non-Binary Repeated Polar Codes”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, accepted, available here.
M. V. Jamali and H. Mahdavifar, “Covert Millimeter-Wave Communication: Design Strategies and Performance Analysis”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, pp. 3691-3704, June 2022.
M. Soleymani, H. Mahdavifar, and A. S. Avestimehr “Analog Secret Sharing with Applications to Private Distributed Learning”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 17, pp. 1893-1904, May 2022.
M. Soleymani and H. Mahdavifar, “Analog Subspace Coding: A New Approach to Coding for Non-Coherent Wireless Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 68, pp. 2349-2364, April 2022.
M. Soleymani, M. V. Jamali, and H. Mahdavifar “Coded Computing via Binary Linear Codes: Designs and Performance Limits”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 2, pp. 879-892, September 2021.
M. Soleymani, R. E. Ali, H. Mahdavifar, and A. S. Avestimehr “List-Decodable Coded Computing: Breaking the Adversarial Toleration Barrier”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 2, pp. 867-878, September 2021.
M. V. Jamali and H. Mahdavifar, “Massive Coded-NOMA for Low-Capacity Channels: A Low-Complexity Recursive Approach”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, pp. 3664-3681, June 2021.
N. Aldaghri, H. Mahdavifar, and A. Beirami “Coded Machine Unlearning”, IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 88137-88150, June 2021.
M. Soleymani, H. Mahdavifar, and A. S. Avestimehr “Analog Lagrange Coded Computing”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 2, pp. 283-295, March 2021.
N. Aldaghri and H. Mahdavifar, “Threshold-Secure Coding with Shared Key”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 2, pp. 95-105, March 2021.
M. Soleymani and H. Mahdavifar, “Distributed Multi-User Secret Sharing”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, pp. 164-178, January 2021.
N. Aldaghri and H. Mahdavifar, “Physical Layer Secret Key Generation in Static Environments”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 15, pp. 2692-2705, December 2020.
H. Mahdavifar, “Polar Coding for Non-Stationary Channels”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, pp. 6920-6938, November 2020.
M. V. Jamali and H. Mahdavifar, “Uplink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access over Mixed RF-FSO Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, pp. 3558-3774, May 2020.
H. Mahdavifar and A. Vardy, “Algebraic List-Decoding in Projective Space: Decoding with Multiplicities and Rank-Metric Codes”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, pp. 1085-1100, February 2019.
H. Mahdavifar, A. Beirami, B. Touri, J. S. Shamma, “Global Games with Noisy Information Sharing”, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 497-509, September 2018.
M. El-Khamy, H. Mahdavifar, G. Feygin, J. Lee, I. Kang, “Relaxed Polar Codes”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 63, pp. 1986-2000, April 2017.
H. Mahdavifar, M. El-Khamy, J. Lee, I. Kang, “Polar Coding for Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, pp. 3115-3127, May 2016.
H. Mahdavifar, M. El-Khamy, J. Lee, I. Kang, “Achieving the Uniform Rate Region of General Multiple Access Channels by Polar Coding”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 64, pp. 467 – 478, February 2016.
H. Mahdavifar, M. El-Khamy, J. Lee, I. Kang, “Performance Limits and Practical Decoding of Interleaved Reed-Solomon Polar Concatenated Codes”, IEEE Transactions on Communication, vol. 62, pp. 1406-1417, May 2014.
E. Yaakobi, H. Mahdavifar, P. H. Siegel, A. Vardy, J.K.Wolf, “Rewriting Codes for Flash Memories”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.60, pp.964 – 975, February 2014.
H. Mahdavifar and A. Vardy, “Algebraic List-decoding of Subspace Codes”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 59, pp. 7814 – 7828, December 2013.
H. Mahdavifar and A. Vardy, “Achieving the Secrecy Capacity of Wiretap Channels Using Polar Codes”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, pp. 6428 – 6443, October 2011. (Finalist for the Information Theory Society Paper Award)
Conference Publications
T. Akyildiz, R. Ku, N. Harder, N. Ebrahimi, and H. Mahdavifar, “ML-Aided Collision Recovery for UHF-RFID Systems,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on RFID, May 2022.
M. V. Jamali, M. Fereydounian, H. Mahdavifar, and H. Hassani, “Low- Complexity Decoding of a Class of Reed-Muller Subcodes for Low-Capacity Channels,” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2022.
M. Soleymani, R. E. Ali, H. Mahdavifar, A. S. Avestimehr, “ApproxIFER: A Model-Agnostic Approach to Resilient and Robust Prediction Serving Systems”, 2022 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, accepted for presentation.
A. V. Makkuva, X. Liu, M. V. Jamali, H. Mahdavifar, S. Oh, P. Viswanath, “KO Codes: Inventing Nonlinear Encoding and Decoding for Reliable Wireless Communication via Deep-Learning,” Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2021.
H. Yao, H. Mahdavifar, A. Fazeli, A. Vardy, “Channel Combining for Nonstationary Polarization on Erasure Channels,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021.
F. Abbasi, H. Mahdavifar, E. Viterbo, “Hybrid Non-Binary Repeated Polar Codes For Low-SNR Regime,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021.
M. Soleymani, R. E. Ali, H. Mahdavifar, A. S. Avestimehr, “List-Decodable Coded Computing: Breaking the Adversarial Toleration Barrier,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021.
M. Soleymani, H. Mahdavifar, A. S. Avestimehr, “Analog Privacy-Preserving Coded Computing,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021.
M. Soleymani, H. Mahdavifar, “New Packings in Grassmannian Space,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021.
M. V. Jamali, X. Liu, A. V. Makkuva, H. Mahdavifar, S. Oh, P. Viswanath, “Reed-Muller Subcodes: Machine Learning-Aided Design of Efficient Soft Recursive Decoding,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021.
F. Abbasi, H. Mahdavifar, E. Viterbo, “Polar Coded Repetition for Low-Capacity Channels,” Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), April 2021.
Y. Wang, H. Mahdavifar, K. Entesari, and Shahin Shahrampour, “Cell Association via Boundary Detection: A Scalable Approach Based on Data-Driven Random Features”, 2020 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, available here.
N. Charalambides, H. Mahdavifar, A. O. Hero III, “Numerically Stable Binary Gradient Coding,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2020, available here.
M. Soleymani and H. Mahdavifar, “Analog Subspace Coding: A New Approach to Coding for Non-Coherent Wireless Networks,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2020, extended version available here.
J. Pang, H. Mahdavifar, and S. S. Pradhan, “Capacity-achieving Polar-based LDGM Codes with Crowdsourcing Applications,” Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2020, extended version available here.
M. V. Jamali and H. Mahdavifar, “Covert Millimeter-Wave Communication via a Dual-Beam Transmitter”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 2019, available here.
N. Aldaghri and H. Mahdavifar, “Threshold-Secure Coding with Shared Key”, Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, September 2019, extended version available here.
M. V. Jamali, M. Soleymani, and H. Mahdavifar, “Coded Distributed Computing: Performance Limits and Code Designs”, Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), August 2019, available here.
M. Fereydounian, M. V. Jamali, H. Hassani, H. Mahdavifar, “Channel Coding at Low Capacity”, Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), August 2019, extended version available here.
J. Pang, H. Mahdavifar, and S. S. Pradhan, “Coding for Crowdsourced Classification with XOR Queries”, Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), August 2019, available here.
H. Mahdavifar and N. Ebrahimi, “Secret Key Generation via Pulse-Coupled Synchronization”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, France, July 2019.
N. Ebrahimi, H. Mahdavifar, and E. Afshari, “A Novel Approach to Secure Communication in Physical Layer via Coupled Dynamical Systems”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 2018, available here.
M. V. Jamali and H. Mahdavifar, “A Low-Complexity Recursive Approach Toward Code-Domain NOMA for Massive Communications”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 2018, available here.
N. Aldaghri and H. Mahdavifar, “Fast Secret Key Generation in Static Environments Using Induced Randomness”, IEEE Global Communications Conferencee (Globecom), December 2018, available here.
M. V. Jamali, S. M. Azimi-Abarghouyi, and H. Mahdavifar, “Outage Probability Analysis of Uplink NOMA over Ultra-High Speed FSO-Backhauled Systems”, IEEE Global Communications Conference Workshop (Globecom), December 2018, available here.
M. Soleymani and H. Mahdavifar, “Distributed Multi-User Secret Sharing”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Vail, Colorado, June 2018.
H. Mahdavifar, “Scaling Exponent of Sparse Random Linear Codes over Binary Erasure Channels”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 689-693, Aachen, Germany, June 2017.
H. Mahdavifar, “Fast Polarization for Non-Stationary Channels”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 849-853, Aachen, Germany, June 2017.
H. Mahdavifar, “A New Approach for Constructing and Decoding Maximum Rank Distance Codes”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 3100-3104, Aachen, Germany, June 2017.
H. Mahdavifar, A. Vardy, “Nearly Optimal Sticky-Insertion Correcting Codes with Efficient Encoding and Decoding”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 2683-2687, Aachen, Germany, June 2017.
H. Mahdavifar, A. Beirami, B. Touri, J. S. Shamma, “Threshold Policy for Global Games with Noisy Information Sharing”, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 5865-5870, Osaka, Japan, December 2015.
M. El-Khamy, H. Lin, J. Lee, I. Kang, H. Mahdavifar, “HARQ rate-compatible polar codes for wireless communications”, Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), December 2015.
H. Mahdavifar and A. Vardy, “Explicit Capacity Achieving Codes for Defective Memories”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 641-645, Hong Kong, June 2015.
H. Mahdavifar and A. Beirami, “Diffusion Channel with Poisson Reception Process: Capacity Results and Applications”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 1956-1960, Hong Kong, June 2015.
H. Mahdavifar and A. Vardy, “Coding for Tag Collision Recovery”, Proceedings of IEEE International Coneference on RFID, 2015. (Winner of the Best Paper Award)
M. El-Khamy, H. Mahdavifar, G. Feygin, J. Lee, I. Kang “Relaxed Channel Polarization for Reduced Complexity Polar Coding”, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2015.
H. Mahdavifar, M. El-Khamy, J. Lee, I. Kang “Techniques for polar coding over multiple access channels”, Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, March 2014.
H. Mahdavifar, M. El-Khamy, J. Lee, I. Kang “Fast Multi-dimensional Polar Encoding and Decoding”, Proceedings of Information Theory and Applications Workshop (invited paper), San Diego, February 2014.
H. Mahdavifar, M. El-Khamy, J. Lee, I. Kang “On the Construction and Decoding of Concatenated Polar Codes”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 952-956, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013.
H. Mahdavifar, M. El-Khamy, J. Lee, I. Kang “Compound Polar Codes”, Proceedings of 2013 Information Theory and Applications Workshop (invited paper), San Diego, February 2013.
H. Mahdavifar and A. Vardy, “List-decoding of Subspace Codes and Rank-Metric Codes up to Singleton Bound”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 1488 – 1492, Boston, Massachusett, July 2012.
H. Mahdavifar and A. Vardy, “Algebraic List-decoding of Subspace Codes with Multiplicities”, Proceedings of the 49th annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, September 2011.
H. Mahdavifar and A. Vardy, “Algebraic List-decoding on the Operator Channel”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 1193-1197, Austin, Texas, June 2010.
H. Mahdavifar and A. Vardy, “Achieving the Secrecy Capacity of Wiretap Channels Using Polar Codes”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 913 – 917, Austin, Texas, June 2010. (Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award)
H. Mahdavifar and A. Vardy, “Optimal Interleaving Algorithms for Generalized Concatenated Codes”, Proceedings of the Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing (invited paper), October 2009.
H. Mahdavifar, P. H. Siegel, A. Vardy, J. K. Wolf and E. Yaakobi, “A Nearly Optimal Construction of Flash Codes”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 1239 – 1243, Seoul, Korea, June 2009.