Alexandros G. Dimakis (Alex Dimakis)

Wireless Networking and Communications Group Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Office: ENS 426 UT Austin WNCG, 2501 Speedway Stop, Mail Code: C0806 Austin, Texas 78712-1687 512-471-3068 dimakis at austin.utexas.edu

I am interested in information theory, coding theory and large-scale information processing. In particular, network coding for distributed storage, message passing algorithms and distributed inference, sparse graph codes and optimization.

News

• New paper: Sparse PCA through Low-rank Approximations (to appear in ICML 2013). video of Sparse PCA talk

• Our Xorbas Hadoop locally repairable codes paper will appear in VLDB 2013. Visit the Xorbas HDFS project homepage.

• I have moved to UT Austin. My USC homepage will no longer be updated.

• Received a Google Faculty Research Award. Support gratefully acknowledged.

• Our paper received the Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award.