JKW Student Paper Award Finalists

A Large Deviations Approach to Secure Lossy Compression

Nir Weinberger (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
Joint with senior author: Neri Merhav

Strengthened Monotonicity of Relative Entropy via Pinched Petz Recovery Map

David Sutter (ETH Zurich)
Joint with senior authors: M. Tomamichel, A. W. Harrow

Finite-Sample Analysis of Approximate Message Passing

Cynthia Rush (Yale University)
Joint with senior author: Ramji Venkataramanan

Blind Interference Alignment for Private Information Retrieval

Hua Sun (University of California, Irvine)
Joint with senior author: Syed Ali Jafar

Distributed Simulation of Continuous Random Variables

Cheuk Ting Li (Stanford University)
Joint with senior author: Abbas El Gamal

Minimax Estimation of the L1 Distance

Jiantao Jiao and Yanjun Han (Stanford University)
Joint with senior author: Tsachy Weissman

2016 IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award

Authors must indicate that a paper is eligible for the 2016 IEEE Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award at the time of submission.

Requirements for eligibility:

  1. One or more authors of the paper must be students.
  2. The principal author of the paper must be a student.
  3. The principal author of the paper must present the paper at ISIT 2016.

To be classified as a student, an author must be registered as a student at an educational institution at the time of paper submission. An author is classified as the principal author of a paper if all non-student authors certify that that author is the principal author.