2025-Q1: team updates

April 4, 2025

Funding

During this quarter, the following funding application has been approved

Understanding transformers via compression and discrimination. Wallenberg AI, autonomous systems, and software program, 2026-2029, academic doctoral student project, responsibility: principal investigator, co-investigator: Rebecka Jörnsten. Note: we will soon announce a PhD project vacancy within this project.

The following papers from my team has been accepted for publication:

K.-H. Ngo, G. Durisi, A. Munari, F. Lazaro, and A. Graell i Amat, “Timely status updates in slotted Aloha networks with energy harvesting,” IEEE Trans. Commun., Feb. 2025. Accepted for publication [], []
A. Sauter, A. O. Kislal, G. Durisi, G. Liva, B. Matuz, and E. G. Ström, “Undetected error probability in the short blocklength regime: Approaching finite-blocklength bounds with polar codes,” IEEE Trans. Commun. , Feb. 2025, accepted for publication [, ].

Furthermore, we have posted the following preprints:

U. K. Ganesan, G. Durisi, M. Zecchin, P. Popovski, and O. Simeone, “Online conformal compression for zero-delay communication with distortion guarantees,” Mar. 2025. []

I gave an invited talk at the 2025 International ITG Conference on Systems, Communications, and Coding (SCC). The title of the talk was ``Type-based unsourced multiple access’’. The slides of the talk can be found here

This quarter, I am teaching the course “SSY210–Information Theory, Advanced Level”