Recent MICS Publications

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MICS Publications

2026

L. Ong, B. N. Vellambi, P. Sadeghi, and J. Kliewer, “Performance Bounds on Pliable Index Coding Using Absent Receivers,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 149–164, Jan. 2026.

Y. Ozkan, Y. Yakimenka, and J. Kliewer, “RL-Based Parallel LDPC Decoding with Clustered Scheduling,” Entropy, vol. 28, no. 2, article 215, Feb. 2026.

R. A. Chou, J. Kliewer, and A. Yener, “Private Sum Computation: Trade-Offs Between Communication, Randomness, and Privacy,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 2472–2482, Apr. 2026.

P. Khanduri, C. Li, R.-I. Sultan, A. Sarker, Y. Qiang, J. Kliewer, and D. Zhu, “On Federated Compositional Optimization: Algorithms, Analysis, and Guarantees,” Transactions on Machine Learning Research, May 2026.

X. Zhong, J. Kliewer, and M. Ji, “Fundamental Limits of Coded Polynomial Aggregation,” in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), Guangzhou, China, June 2026.

A. Moatazedian, Y. Yakimenka, R. A. Chou, and J. Kliewer, “Distortion-Constrained Minimax Data Sanitization with Multiple Adversaries,” Entropy, vol. 28, no. 10, article 1054, Sept. 2026, doi: 10.3390/e28101054.

Y. Yakimenka, R. Lizarraga, T. Cheung, J. Kliewer, and J. Dabin, “Sim-to-Real Transfer Learning for 5G Specific Emitter Identification,” in Proc. IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Oct. 2026 (to appear).

X. Zhong, J. Kliewer, and M. Ji, “Feasibility of Coded Polynomial Aggregation under Straggler Patterns,” in Proc. IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop (ITW), Nov. 2026 (to appear).

E. Mossel and A. Sridhar, "Detecting Mutual Excitations in Non-Stationary Hawkes Processes," 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Guangzhou, China, 2026, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ISIT62367.2026.11653622.

A. Sridhar and A. Ghosh, "Finding Super-spreaders in SIS Epidemics," 2026 American Control Conference (ACC), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2026, pp. 3400-3405.

Ahmed, Y., Ghosh, A., Wang, C. C., & Shroff, N. B. (2026, June). Beyond Freshness and Semantics: A Coupon-Collector Framework for Effective Status Updates. In 2026 24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Vungarala, D., Amin, M.H., Mercati, P., Ghosh, A., Roohi, A., Pan, D.Z., Zand, R. and Angizi, S., 2026. Limca: Llm for automating analog in-memory computing architecture design exploration. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.

Singh, G., Ghosh, A., & Roy, D. (2026, June). PROTEUS: Proactive Latency-Constrained Enhanced Ubiquitous Surveillance. In 2026 24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Ornee, T. Z., Ghosh, A., Swami, A., & Shroff, N. B. (2026, June). Fair online learning for restless bandits. In 2026 24th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

Kitamura, T., Ghosh, A., Ayoub, A., Chu, T.D. and Szepesvári, C., 2026. Revisiting subgradient dominance in robust mdps: Counterexamples, hardness, and sufficient conditions., [accepted] Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026.

Amirhossein Roknilamouki and Arnob Ghosh and Eylem Ekici and Ness Shroff, `` Escaping Offline Pessimism: Vector-Field Reward Shaping for Safe Frontier Exploration", [to appear] in Reinforcement Learning Journal, Volume

A. Emadi, T. Lipniacki, A. Levchenko, and A. Abdi, “Assessing the reliability of cellular decision making from noisy, multidimensional single-cell TNF–NF-κB signaling data,” PLoS Comput. Biol., vol. 22, e1014608, pp. 1-25 plus 14 pages of Supporting Information, 2026.

Y. Zhao and A. Abdi, “Interpretability of LLM classifiers via the rational inattention theory with application to hate speech detection,” in Proc. 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), San Diego, CA, 2026, pp. 1-9.

Y. Zhao, A. Abdi and A. Abdi, “Asymmetric information-based stock trading statistical modeling and data analysis: An information transmission approach,” in Proc. 60th IEEE Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, 2026, pp. 1-6.

E. Zhang, R. Rashid and A. Abdi, “Multichannel signal transmission and reception using a compact multichannel underwater vector modem: Experimental results,” in Proc. Meetings on Acoustics, 2026, pp. 1-13.

2025

Y. Yakimenka, C.-W. Weng, H.-Y. Lin, E. Rosnes, and J. Kliewer, “Differentially-Private Collaborative Online Personalized Mean Estimation,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., vol. 20, pp. 11975–11990, 2025.

A. Moatazedian, Y. Yakimenka, R. A. Chou, and J. Kliewer, “Minimax Data Sanitization with Distortion Constraint and Adversarial Inference,” in Proc. IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop (ITW), Sydney, Australia, Sept. 2025.

Y. Yakimenka, H.-Y. Lin, E. Rosnes, and J. Kliewer, “Communication-Constrained Private Decentralized Online Personalized Mean Estimation,” in Proc. IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop (ITW), Sydney, Australia, Sept. 2025.

S. Ghasvarianjahromi, Y. Yakimenka, and J. Kliewer, “Context-Aware Search and Retrieval Over Erasure Channels,” in Proc. IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop (ITW), Sydney, Australia, Sept. 2025.

R. Rashid, A. Abdi and Z. H. Michalopoulou, “Blind weak signal detection via dictionary learning in time-spreading distortion channels using vector sensors,” JASA Express Lett., vol. 5, 064803, 2025.

Wensell, Kyle P., et al. "Machine Learning Doppler‐Tolerant One‐Bit Radar Detectors." IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation 19.1 (2025)

S. Ghasvarianjahromi, Y. Yakimenka, and J. Kliewer, "Decentralized Sparse Matrix Multiplication Under Byzantine Attacks," IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., vol. 20, pp. 7333-7346, 2025.

R. A. Chou and J. Kliewer, "Function Computation Without Secure Links: Information and Leakage Rates," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 71, no. 11, pp. 9004-9018, 2025.

J. Gaudio, M. Z. Rácz and A. Sridhar. Average-case and Smoothed Analysis of Graph Isomorphism. Annals of Applied Probability 35(2): 1373 – 1406, April 2025.

Z. Qi, R. Rashid, A. Abdi and D. Pompili, “Carrier frequency offset compensation for OSDM in underwater acoustic communications: Theory and experiments using a vector MIMO modem,” in Proc. Conf. Inform. Sci. Syst., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2025, pp. 1-6.

A. Roknimalouki, A. Ghosh, M. Shi, and N. Shroff, “Provably Efficient RL for Linear MDPs under Instantaneous Safety Constraints in Non-Convex Feature Spaces,” in Proc. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

A. Ghosh and M. Moharrami, “Online Learning in Risk Sensitive Constrained MDP,” in Proc. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

Y. Ahmed, A. Ghosh, C.-C. Wang, and N. Shroff, “Communication Efficient Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent,” in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, 2025.

T. Kitamura, A. Ghosh, T. Kozuno, W. Kumagai, K. Kasaura, K. Hoshino, Y. Hosoe, and Y. Matsuo, “Provably Efficient RL under Episode-Wise Safety in Constrained MDPs with Linear Function Approximation,” in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025 (Spotlight).

S. Ganguly, K. Panaganti, A. Ghosh, and A. Wierman, “Efficient Policy Optimization in Robust Constrained MDPs with Iteration Complexity Guarantees,” in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

Ganguly, S. and Ghosh, A., Iteration Complexity for Robust CMDP for finite policy space. IEEE 64th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp. 2713-2719). December 2025.

K. Alemdar, A. Ghosh, V. Chaudhary, N. Shroff, and K. R. Chowdhury, “REMARKABLE: RIS-Enabled Mobile Beamforming through Kernalized Bandit Learning,” in Proc. ACM MobiHoc, Houston, TX, Oct. 2025, pp. 101–110 (Best Paper Award).

X. Zhong, S. Lu, J. Kliewer, and M. Ji, "Uncoded Download in Lagrange-Coded Elastic Computing with Straggler Tolerance," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), 2025, pp. 1-6.

X. Zhong, S. Lu, J. Kliewer, and M. Ji, "Dual-Lagrange Encoding for Storage and Download in Elastic Computing for Resilience," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), 2025, pp. 1-6.

A. Ziaeddini, Y. Yakimenka, and J. Kliewer, "Differentially-Private Decentralized Learning in Heterogeneous Multicast Networks," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), 2025, pp. 1-6.

2024

R. Rashid, E. Zhang, A. Abdi and Z. H. Michalopoulou, “Multichannel signal detection in time-spreading distortion underwater channels using vector and scalar sensors: Theory and experiments,” IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 49, pp. 1151-1159, 2024.

R. Rashid, E. Zhang and A. Abdi, “On the performance of a new wireless communication compact multichannel underwater receiver using a sphere vector sensor,” IEEE Trans. Vehic. Technol., vol. 73, pp. 1458-1461, 2024.

U. Qureshi, A. Ghosh and B. K. Panigrahi, "Menu-Based Pricing for Electric Vehicle Charging in a Mobile Charging Service for Maximizing Charging Station's Profit and Social Welfare: A Stackelberg Game," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 3447-3456 doi: 10.1109/TIA.2024.3522902.

U. Qureshi, A. Ghosh and B. K. Panigrahi, "Multiobjective Pareto-Optimal Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging Schedule in a Commercial Charging Station: A Stochastic Convex Optimization Approach," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 20, no. 11, pp. 12620-12632, Nov. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TII.2024.3423373

Y. Yakimenka, C.-W. Weng, H.-Y. Lin, E. Rosnes, and J. Kliewer, "Straggler-Resilient Differentially Private Decentralized Learning," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Inf. Theory, vol. 5, pp. 407-423, 2024.

R. A. Chou and J. Kliewer, "Secure Distributed Storage: Optimal Trade-Off Between Storage Rate and Privacy Leakage," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 3658-3668, 2024.

Emadi, A. Abdi, M. Migliore and C. Mazzara, “A hybrid model to explore how a hippocampal CA1 neuronal network is affected by faulty molecules of an intraneuronal CREB signaling network,” in Proc. IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symp., Philadelphia, PA, 2024, pp. 1-6.

X. Zhong, J. Kliewer, and M. Ji, "Uncoded Storage Coded Transmission Elastic Computing with Straggler Tolerance in Heterogeneous Systems," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Commun. (ICC), 2024, pp. 4730-4735.

R. A. Chou, J. Kliewer, and A. Yener, "Private Sum Computation: Trade-Off Between Shared Randomness and Privacy," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), 2024, pp. 927-932.

M. Bakshi, S. Ghasvarianjahromi, Y. Yakimenka, A. Beemer, O. Kosut, and J. Kliewer, "Valid: a Validated Algorithm for Learning in Decentralized Networks with Possible Adversarial Presence," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), 2024, pp. 2502-2507.

2023

E. Zhang, R. Rashid and A. Abdi, “Particle velocity underwater data communication: Physics, channels, system and experiments,” IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 48, pp. 1338-1347, 2023

R. Rashid, E. Zhang and A. Abdi, “Underwater acoustic signal acquisition and sensing using a ring vector sensor communication receiver: Theory and experiments,” Sensors, vol. 23, 6917, 2023.

A. Emadi, T. Lipniacki, A. Levchenko, and A. Abdi, “Single cell measurements and modeling and computation of decision making errors in a molecular signaling system with two output molecules,” Biology (Machine Learning Applications in Biology Special Issue), vol. 12, 1461, 2023.

M. Ozen, E. S. Emamian, and A. Abdi, “From data to knowledge: A mini-review on molecular network modeling and analysis for therapeutic target discovery,” Arch. Pharmacol. Ther., vol. 5, pp. 36-43, 2023.

A. Haimovich, "Information Theoretic Signal Processing and Its Applications [Bookshelf]," in IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 97-109, April 2023.

E. Byrne, O. W. Gnilke, and J. Kliewer, "Straggler- and Adversary-Tolerant Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication Using Polynomial Codes," Entropy, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 266, 2023.

S. Habib, A. Beemer, and J. Kliewer, "RELDEC: Reinforcement Learning-Based Decoding of Moderate Length LDPC Codes," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 5661-5674, 2023.

E. Graves, A. Beemer, J. Kliewer, O. Kosut, and P. L. Yu, "Keyless Authentication for AWGN Channels," IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 496-519, 2023.

E. Zhang, R. Rashid and A. Abdi, “Underwater communication experiments for transmitting multiple data streams using a vector acoustic MIMO system: OFDM and FSK modulations,” in Proc. MTS/IEEE Oceans, Biloxi, MS, 2023, pp. 1-5.

E. Zhang, R. Rashid and A. Abdi, “Experiments on a compact multichannel vector sensor receiver for signal acquisition in underwater communication systems,” in Proc. MTS/IEEE Oceans, Biloxi, MS, 2023, pp. 1-4.

Y. Zhao, A. Abdi, M. Dean and A. Abdi, “Optimal decision making with rational inattention using noisy data,” in Proc. Conf. Inform. Sci. Syst., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2023, pp. 1-5.

A. Emadi, T. Lipniacki, A. Levchenko and A. Abdi, “A cellular decision making model where the cell exhibits maximum signal detection probability,” in Proc. Conf. Inform. Sci. Syst., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 2023, pp. 1-4.

A. Ghosh, A. M. Haimovich and J. A. Dabin, "Interference Mitigation in Blind Source Separation by Hidden State Filtering," 2023 57th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2023, pp. 1-6.

K. P. Wensell, J. Zhou, A. M. Haimovich, E. A. Young and L. T. Vo, "Learning of Doppler Tolerant Radar Detectors for Noise Waveforms," 2023 57th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2023, pp. 1-5.

S. Ghasvarianjahromi, Y. Yakimenka, and J. Kliewer, "Decentralized Sparse Matrix Multiplication Under Byzantine Attacks," in Proc. IEEE Global Commun. Conf. (GLOBECOM), 2023, pp. 1723-1728.

X. Zhong, J. Kliewer, and M. Ji, "Matrix Multiplication with Straggler Tolerance in Coded Elastic Computing via Lagrange Code," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Commun. (ICC), 2023, pp. 136-141.

Y. Yakimenka, C.-W. Weng, H.-Y. Lin, E. Rosnes, and J. Kliewer, "Differentially-Private Collaborative Online Personalized Mean Estimation," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), 2023, pp. 737-742.

R. A. Chou and J. Kliewer, "Secure Distributed Storage: Optimal Trade-Off Between Storage Rate and Privacy Leakage," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), 2023, pp. 1324-1329.

2022

R. Rashid, E. Zhang, A. Abdi and Z. H. Michalopoulou, “Theoretical and experimental multi-sensor signal detection in time spreading distortion underwater channels,” in Proc. MTS/IEEE Oceans, Hampton Roads, VA, 2022, pp. 1-4.

A. Emadi and A. Abdi, “A study of how abnormalities of the CREB protein affect a neuronal system and its signals: Modeling and analysis using experimental data,” in Proc. IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symp., Philadelphia, PA, 2022, pp. 1-6.

Z. Khan, W. Jiang, A. Haimovich, M. Govoni, T. Garner and O. Simeone, "Fast Adaptation of Radar Detection via Online Meta-learning," 2022 56th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 580-585.

R. A. Chou and J. Kliewer, "Function Computation Without Secure Links: Information and Leakage Rates," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), 2022, pp. 1223-1228.

Y. Liu, L. Ong, P. L. Yeoh, P. Sadeghi, J. Kliewer, and S. Johnson, "Information Leakage in Index Coding With Sensitive and Non-Sensitive Messages," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Inf. Theory (ISIT), 2022, pp. 3256-3261.

Y. Yakimenka, C.-W. Weng, H.-Y. Lin, E. Rosnes, and J. Kliewer, "Straggler-Resilient Differentially-Private Decentralized Learning," in Proc. IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop (ITW), 2022, pp. 708-713.

S. A. Obead and J. Kliewer, "Multi-Message Pliable Private Information Retrieval," in Proc. IEEE Inf. Theory Workshop (ITW), 2022, pp. 714-719.

M. Ozen, E. S. Emamian, and A. Abdi, “Exploring extreme signaling failures in intracellular molecular networks,” Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol. 148, 105692, 2022.

A. Emadi, M. Ozen and A. Abdi, “A hybrid model to study how late long term potentiation is affected by faulty molecules in an intraneuronal signaling network regulating transcription factor CREB,” Integrative Biology, vol. 14, pp. 111-125, 2022.

M. Ozen, E. S. Emamian, and A. Abdi, “Learning feedback molecular network models using integer linear programming,” Phys. Biol., vol. 19, 066004, 2022

J. M. Romero-Jerez, F. J. Lopez-Martinez, J. P. Pena-Martin and A. Abdi, “Stochastic fading channel models with multiple dominant specular components,” IEEE Trans. Vehic. Technol., vol. 71, pp. 2229-2239, 2022

W. Jiang, A. M. Haimovich and O. Simeone, "Joint Design of Radar Waveform and Detector via End-to-End Learning With Waveform Constraints," in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 552-567, Feb. 2022.

Y. Yakimenka, H.-Y. Lin, E. Rosnes, and J. Kliewer, "Optimal Rate-Distortion-Leakage Tradeoff for Single-Server Information Retrieval," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 832-846, 2022.

S. A. Obead, H.-Y. Lin, E. Rosnes, and J. Kliewer, "Private Linear Computation for Noncolluding Coded Databases," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 847-861, 2022.

Y. Liu, L. Ong, P. Sadeghi, S. Johnson, J. Kliewer, and P. L. Yeoh, "Information Leakage in Index Coding With Sensitive and Nonsensitive Messages," IEEE J. Sel. Areas Inf. Theory, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 803-814, 2022.

O. Günlü, J. Kliewer, R. F. Schaefer, and V. Sidorenko, "Code Constructions and Bounds for Identification via Channels," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 1486-1496, 2022.

S. A. Obead, H.-Y. Lin, E. Rosnes, and J. Kliewer, "Private Polynomial Function Computation for Noncolluding Coded Databases," IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., vol. 17, pp. 1800-1813, 2022.

E. Ekenstedt, L. Ong, Y. Liu, S. Johnson, P. L. Yeoh, and J. Kliewer, "When Differential Privacy Implies Syntactic Privacy," IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., vol. 17, pp. 2110-2124, 2022.

C.-W. Weng, Y. Yakimenka, H.-Y. Lin, E. Rosnes, and J. Kliewer, "Generative Adversarial User Privacy in Lossy Single-Server Information Retrieval," IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur., vol. 17, pp. 3495-3510, 2022.