Distributed Information Systems: Theoretical Foundations and Promising Gains

Departments: Electrical Engineering
Time: Monday, March 1, 2021 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Type: Seminar Series
Presenter: Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali
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Department of Electrical Engineering Seminar

Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali
"Distributed Information Systems: Theoretical Foundations and Promising Gains"

Monday, March 1, 2021; 10:30 AM
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Abstract: ​ Information Systems, running distributed algorithms and platforms, induce complicated interactions among the basic resources of the networks. We often rely on our intuitive understanding and prevailing wisdom to manage those interactions and develop practical algorithms. In this talk, we challenge some of those common beliefs in several areas such as multiuser wireless systems, content delivery networks, and distributed computing and learning. We show that by characterizing the fundamental limits of the system in a suitable theoretical framework, we can suggest a radically different solution with a significant gain. The gains can scale with the size of the network. At the end, we will review some of the promising directions for further investigation.

Bio:​ Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali received the B.Sc. degree from Isfahan University of Technology, the M.Sc. degree from the University of Tehran, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada in 2007. From 2007 to 2008, he was with the Wireless Technology Laboratories, Nortel Networks, Ottawa, ON, Canada. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley. From Sept. 2010 to Sept. 2020, he was working at Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, as a Communication Network Research Scientist. Currently, he is a faculty member at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology. His research interests include Information Theory and Coding, Distributed Systems and Blockchain Technology, and Theoretical Machine Learning.

Dr. Maddah-Ali is a recipient of NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2007, the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Best Paper Award in 2014, the IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2015, and the IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award in 2016. He is currently serving as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Hosted by:​ Prof. Amin Karbasi