Publications

* indicates equal contributions

Journal Papers

• Perturbation-Resilient Sets for Dynamic Service Balancing
  J. Sima, C. Pan, and O. Milenkovic
  Submitted to Designs, Codes and Cryptography.

• Error Correction for DNA Storage
  J. Sima, N. Raviv, M. Schwartz, and J. Bruck
  accepted by BITS Magazine.

• Correcting Multiple Deletions and Insertions in Multiple-Heads Racetrack Memories
  J. Sima and J. Bruck
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 69, no. 9, pp. 5619 - 5639, 2023.

• On Optimal k-Deletion Correcting Codes
  J. Sima and J. Bruck
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 3360 - 3375, 2021. (2020-2021 IEEE Communication Society Data Storage Best Paper Award)

• On Coding Over Sliced Information
  J. Sima, N. Raviv, and J. Bruck
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 2793 - 2807, 2021.

• Deletion Codes.pdf Two Deletion Correcting Codes from Indicator Vectors
  J. Sima, N. Raviv, and J. Bruck
  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 2375-2391, 2020.

• Robust Indexing - Optimal Codes for DNA Storage
  J. Sima, N. Raviv, and J. Bruck
  under review in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

• Federated Classification in Hyperbolic Spaces via Secure Aggregation of Convex Hulls
  S.Prakash*, J. Sima*, C. Pan*, E. Chien, and O. Milenkovic
  accepted by Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR).

• Non-binary Codes for Correcting a Burst of at Most t Deletions
  S.Wang, Y. Tang, J. Sima, R. Gabrys, and F. Farnoud
  accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

• Break-Resilient Codes for Forensic 3D Fingerprinting
  C.Wang, J. Sima, and N. Raviv
  under review in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Conference Papers

• Oracle-Efficient Hybrid Online Learning with Unknown Distribution
  C. Wu, J. Sima, and W. Szpankowski
  Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2024.

• Online Distribution Learning with Local Private Constraints
  J. Sima*, C. Wu*, O. Milenkovic, and W. Szpankowski
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2024.

• Nearest Neighbor Representations of Neural Circuits
  K. M. Kilic, J. Sima, and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2024, Athens, Greece.

• Nearest Neighbor Representations of Neurons
  K. M. Kilic, J. Sima, and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2024, Athens, Greece.

• Break-Resilient Codes for Forensic 3D Fingerprinting
  C.Wang, J. Sima, and N. Raviv
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2024, Athens, Greece.

• Machine Unlearning of Federated Clusters
  C. Pan*, J. Sima*, S. Prakash*, V. Rana, and O. Milenkovic
  International Conference on Learning Representations 2023, Kigali, Rwanda.

• On Constant-Weight Binary B_2-Sequences
  J. Sima, Y.-H. Li, I. Shomorony, and O. Milenkovic
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2023, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Perturbation-Resilient Sets for Dynamic Service Balancing
  J. Sima, C. Pan, and O. Milenkovic
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2023, Taipei, Taiwan.

• On the Information Capacity of Associative Computation
  K. M. Kilic, J. Sima, and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2023, Taipei, Taiwan.

• Finding a Burst of Positives via Nonadaptive Semiquantitative Group Testing
  Y.-H. Li, R. Gabrys, J. Sima, I. Shomorony, and O. Milenkovic
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2023, Taipei, Taiwan.

• On Algebraic Constructions of Neural Networks with Small Weights
  K. M. Kilic, J. Sima, and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2022, Espoo, Finland.

• Trace Reconstruction with Bounded Edit Distance
  J. Sima and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jul, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

• Non-binary Codes for Correcting a Burst of at Most 2 Deletions
  S.Wang, J. Sima, and F. Farnoud
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jul, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

• Exact Recovery in the Balanced Stochastic Block Model with Side Information
  J. Sima, F. Zhao, and S.-L. Huang
  IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Oct, 2021, Kanazawa, Japan.

• On the Optimal Error Rate of Stochastic Block Model with Symmetric Side Information
  F. Zhao, J. Sima, and S.-L. Huang
  IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Oct, 2021, Kanazawa, Japan.

• Robust Indexing - Optimal Codes for DNA Storage
  J. Sima, N. Raviv, and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2020, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

• Optimal Codes for the q-ary Deletion Channel
  J. Sima, R. Gabrys, and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2020, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

• compression.pdf Syndrome Compression for Optimal Redundancy Codes
  J. Sima, R. Gabrys, and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2020, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

• Optimal Systematic t-Deletion Correcting Codes
  J. Sima, R. Gabrys, and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2020, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

• Optimal k-Deletion Correcting Codes
  J. Sima and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jul, 2019, Paris, France. (2019 IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award)

• Correcting Deletions in Multiple-Heads Racetrack Memories
  J. Sima and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jul, 2019, Paris, France.

• On Coding Over Sliced Information
  J. Sima, N. Raviv, and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jul, 2019, Paris, France.

• Two Deletion Correcting Codes from Indicator Vectors
  J. Sima, N. Raviv, and J. Bruck
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2018, Vail, CO, USA.

• Stopping set elimination for LDPC codes
  A. Jiang, P. Upadhyaya, Y. Wang, K. R. Narayanan, H. Zhou, J. Sima, and J. Bruck
  Proc. 55th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, 2017.

• Polar codes for broadcast channels with receiver message side information and noncausal state available at the encoder
  J. Sima and W. Chen
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jul, 2016, Barcelona, Spain.

• Messages over Gaussian Broadcast Channels with Receiver Message Side Information
  J. Sima and W. Chen
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2015, Hong Kong.

• Network Coding.pdf Joint network and Gelfand-Pinsker coding for 3-receiver Gaussian broadcast channels with receiver message side information
  J. Sima and W. Chen
  IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun, 2014, Honolulu, USA.

• Joint Network and Dirty-Paper Coding for Multi-way Relay Networks with Pairwise Information Exchange
  J. Sima and W. Chen
  IEEE Global Communications Conference, Dec, 2014, Austin, USA.