Biography
Anoosheh Heidarzadeh is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. Prior to this, Dr. Heidarzadeh was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, from 2018 to 2022. Dr. Heidarzadeh received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, in 2012. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, from 2013 to 2014, and he was an Associate Research Scientist at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, from 2015 to 2017. Dr. Heidarzadeh's research interests include information and coding theory, private and secure computing, networking, and learning, fault-tolerant distributed computing and machine learning, and distributed storage and networking systems.
Education
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, 2012
Current Research Interests
- Information and coding theory
- Private and secure computing, networking, and learning
- Fault-tolerant distributed computing and machine learning
- Distributed storage and networking systems
Courses Taught
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ELEN 233 / COEN 201 - Digital Signal Processing I
Recent Publications
Journals:
- A. Heidarzadeh, N. Esmati, and A. Sprintson, "Single-Server Private Linear Transformation: The Joint Privacy Case," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 899-911, March 2022.
- A. Pradhan, A. Heidarzadeh, and K. R. Narayanan, "Factored LT and Factored Raptor Codes for Large-Scale Distributed Matrix Multiplication," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 893-906, Sept. 2021.
- A. Heidarzadeh, F. Kazemi, and A. Sprintson, "The Role of Coded Side Information in Single-Server Private Information Retrieval," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 25-44, Jan. 2021.
- S. Kadhe, A. Heidarzadeh, A. Sprintson, and O. O. Koyluoglu, "Single-Server Private Information Retrieval Schemes are Equivalent to Locally Recoverable Coding Schemes," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 391-402, March 2021.
- S. Kadhe, B. Garcia, A. Heidarzadeh, S. El-Rouayheb, and A. Sprintson, "Private Information Retrieval with Side Information," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 2032-2043, April 2020.
- A. Heidarzadeh, J.-F. Chamberland, R. D. Wesel, and P. Parag, "A Systematic Approach to Incremental Redundancy with Application to Erasure Channels," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 2620-2631, April 2019.
- A. Heidarzadeh, A. Sprintson, and C. Singh, "A Fast and Accurate Failure Frequency Approximation for k-Terminal Reliability Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 933-950, Sept. 2018.
- Y. Eftekhari, A. Heidarzadeh, A.H. Banihashemi and I. Lambadaris, "Density Evolution Analysis of Node-Based Verification-Based Algorithms in Compressed Sensing," in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 6616-6645, Oct. 2012.
Peer-Reviewed Conferences and Workshops:
- R. Ji, A. Heidarzadeh and K. R. Narayanan, "Sparse Random Khatri-Rao Product Codes for Distributed Matrix Multiplication," 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Oct. 2022.
- A. Gomez-Leos and A. Heidarzadeh, "Single-Server Private Information Retrieval With Side Information Under Arbitrary Popularity Profiles," 2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Oct. 2022.
- E. Karimi, A. Heidarzadeh, K. R. Narayanan, and A. Sprintson, "Noisy Group Testing with Side Information," 2022 56th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Oct. 2022.
- N. Wang, A. Heidarzadeh, and A. Sprintson, "Multi-Message Private Information Retrieval: A Scalar Linear Solution," 2022 58th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Sept. 2022.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. Sprintson, "The Role of Reusable and Single-Use Side Information in Private Information Retrieval," 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2022.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. Sprintson, "The Linear Capacity of Single-Server Individually-Private Information Retrieval With Side Information," 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2022.
- N. Esmati, A. Heidarzadeh, and A. Sprintson, "Multi-Server Private Linear Computation with Joint and Individual Privacy Guarantees," IEEE International Symposium on Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems (Redundancy), Oct. 2021.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. Sprintson, "Single-Server Individually-Private Information Retrieval: A Combinatorial Approach," 2021 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Oct. 2021.
- R. Ji, A. K. Pradhan, A. Heidarzadeh, and K. R. Narayanan, "Squeezed Random Khatri-Rao Product Codes," 2021 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Oct. 2021.
- N. Esmati, A. Heidarzadeh, and A. Sprintson, "Private Linear Transformation: The Individual Privacy Case," 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021.
- N. Esmati, A. Heidarzadeh, and A. Sprintson, "Private Linear Transformation: The Joint Privacy Case," 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021.
- A. K. Pradhan, A. Heidarzadeh, and K. R. Narayanan, "Asymptotic Analysis of Factored LT codes for Distributed Matrix Multiplication," 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2021.
- A. Heidarzadeh and K. R. Narayanan, "Two-Stage Adaptive Pooling with RT-QPCR for COVID-19 Screening," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), June 2021.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. Sprintson, "Private Computation with Individual and Joint Privacy," 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2020.
- A. Pradhan, A. Heidarzadeh, and K. R. Narayanan, "Factored LT and Factored Raptor Codes for Large-Scale Distributed Matrix Multiplication," 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2020.
- A. M. Subramaniam, A. Heidarzadeh, A. K. Pradhan, and K. R. Narayanan, "Product Largrange Coded Computing," 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2020.
- A. M. Subramaniam, A. Heidarzadeh, and K. R. Narayanan, "Random Khatri-Rao-Product Codes for Numerically-Stable Distributed Matrix Multiplication," 2019 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Sept. 2019.
- F. Kazemi, E. Karimi, A. Heidarzadeh, and A. Sprintson, "Private Information Retrieval with Private Coded Side Information: The Multi-Server Case," 2019 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Sept. 2019.
- E. Karimi, F. Kazemi, A. Heidarzadeh, K. R. Narayanan, and A. Sprintson, "Non-adaptive Quantitative Group Testing Using Irregular Sparse Graph Codes," 2019 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Sept. 2019.
- A. M. Subramaniam, A. Heidarzadeh, and K. R. Narayanan, "Collaborative Decoding of Polynomial Codes for Distributed Computation," 2019 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Aug. 2019.
- S. Kadhe, A. Heidarzadeh, A. Sprintson, and O. O. Koyluoglu, "On an Equivalence Between Single-Server PIR with Side Information and Locally Recoverable Codes," 2019 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Aug. 2019.
- E. Karimi, F. Kazemi, A. Heidarzadeh, K. R. Narayanan, and A. Sprintson, "Sparse Graph Codes for Non-adaptive Quantitative Group Testing," 2019 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Aug. 2019.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. Sprintson, "Private Computation with Side Information: The Single-Server Case," 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2019.
- A. Heidarzadeh, F. Kazemi, and A. Sprintson, "Capacity of Single-Server Single-Message Private Information Retrieval with Private Coded Side Information," 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2019.
- A. Heidarzadeh, S. Kadhe, S. El Rouayheb, and A. Sprintson, "Single-Server Multi-Message Individually-Private Information Retrieval with Side Information," 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2019.
- F. Kazemi, E. Karimi, A. Heidarzadeh, and A. Sprintson, "Single-Server Single-Message Online Private Information Retrieval with Side Information," 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2019.
- F. Kazemi, E. Karimi, A. Heidarzadeh, and A. Sprintson, "Multi-Server Private Information Retrieval with Coded Side Information," 2019 IEEE Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT), June 2019.
- R. D. Wesel, N. Wong, A. Baldauf, A. Belhouchat, A. Heidarzadeh, and J.-F. Chamberland, "Transmission Lengths That Maximize Throughput of Variable-Length Coding & ACK/NACK Feedback," 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dec. 2018.
- A. Heidarzadeh, F. Kazemi, and A. Sprintson, "Single-Message Single-Server Private Information Retrieval with Coded Side Information," 2018 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Nov. 2018.
- A. Heidarzadeh, S. Kadhe, B. Garcia, S. El Rouayheb, and A. Sprintson, "On the Capacity of Multi-Message Single-Server Private Information Retrieval with Side Information," 2018 56th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Oct. 2018.
- A. Heidarzadeh, A. Sprintson, and C. Singh, "A Fast and Accurate Approximation Algorithm for Failure Frequency of Power Distribution Systems," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems (PMAPS), June 2018.
- A. Heidarzadeh, J.-F. Chamberland, R. D. Wesel, and P. Parag, "A Systematic Approach to Incremental Redundancy over Erasure Channels," 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2018.
- E. Karimi, F. Kazemi, A. Heidarzadeh, and A. Sprintson, "A Simple and Efficient Strategy for the Coin Weighing Problem with a Spring Scale," 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2018.
- A. Heidarzadeh, I. Tyagi, S. Shakkottai, and A. Sprintson, "A Monetary Mechanism for Stabilizing Cooperative Data Exchange with Selfish Users," 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2018.
- S. Kadhe, B. Garcia, A. Heidarzadeh, S. El Rouayheb, and A. Sprintson, "Private Information Retrieval with Side Information," 2017 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Oct. 2017.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. Sprintson, "An Algebraic-Combinatorial Proof Technique for the GM-MDS Conjecture," 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2017.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. Sprintson, "Successive Local and Successive Global Omniscience," 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2017.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. Sprintson, "Cooperative Data Exchange: A Coalition Game Perspective," 2016 54th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Oct. 2016.
- A. Heidarzadeh, M. Yan, and A. Sprintson, "Cooperative Data Exchange with Priority Classes," 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2016.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. Sprintson, "Cooperative Data Exchange with Unreliable Clients," 2015 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Oct. 2015.
- A. Heidarzadeh, S. Zhao, T. Ho, and M. Effros, "Efficient Pooling against Strategic Adversary with Applications in Anonymous and Reliable Networking," 2014 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton), Oct. 2014.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. H. Banihashemi, "How Much Can Knowledge of Delay Model Help Chunked Coding over Networks with Perfect Feedback?," 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2014.
- A. Heidarzadeh, H. Ravi, and T. Ho, "Practical Improvements to Bus-Based Strategies for Reliable Anonymous Networking," 2013 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Dec. 2013.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. H. Banihashemi, "How Fast Can Dense Codes Achieve the Min-Cut Capacity of Line Networks?," 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2012.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. H. Banihashemi, "Coding Delay Analysis of Chunked Codes over Line Networks," 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Network Coding (NetCod), June 2012.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. H. Banihashemi, "Analysis of Overlapped Chunked Codes with Small Chunks over Line Networks," 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aug. 2011.
- Y. Eftekhari, A. Heidarzadeh, A. H. Banihashemi, and I. Lambadaris, "Density Evolution Analysis of Node-Based Verification-Based Algorithms in Compressed Sensing," 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aug. 2011.
- A. Heidarzadeh and A. H. Banihashemi, "Overlapped Chunked Network Coding," 2010 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Jan. 2010.