Sunday June 7
| 8.15-8.45 AM | Registration | |
| 8.45-8.50 AM | Opening remarks | Dmitry Trukhachev, General Chair |
| 8.50-10.50 AM | Tutorial 1: Casting Error-Correction Decoding as a Convex Optimization Problem, and Building Efficient Solvers | Stark Draper, University of Toronto |
| 10.50-11.20 AM | Coffee break | |
| 11.20 AM-12.20 PM | S1: Technical Session | Information Theory |
| 12.20-1.20 PM | Lunch Break | |
| 1.20 PM-3.20 PM | Tutorial 2: Massive MIMO: From Antenna Array to Information Theory | Sergey Loyka, University of Ottawa |
| 3.20-3.50 PM | Break | |
| 3.30-5.50 PM | Tutorial 3: Information-Theoretic Analysis for Generalization of Learning Algorithms | Ziqiao Wang, Tongji University |
| 6.00-10.00 PM | Welcome Reception | Black Sheep Restaurant (Tentative) |
Monday June 8
| 8.15-8.45 AM | Registration | |
| 8.45-8.50 AM | Announcements | |
| 8.50-9.50 AM | Keynote 1: Can We Learn from Learned Error-Correcting Codes? | Natasha Devroye, University of Illinois Chicago |
| 9.50-10.20 AM | Coffee break | |
| 10.20 AM-12.20 PM | M1: Technical Session | Error-Correction Codes |
| 12.20-1.20 PM | Lunch Break | |
| 1.20 PM – 2.20 PM | Keynote 2: Quantization for LLMs and matrix multiplication | Yury Polyanskiy, MIT |
| 2.20-3.20 PM | M2: Technical Session | Optical Communications and Related Topics |
| 3.20-3.40 PM | Break | |
| 3.40-6.00 PM | M3: Invited and Technical Session | Compressed Sensing and Information Theory |
Tuesday June 9
| 8.30-8.45 AM | Registration | |
| 8.45-8.50 AM | Announcements | |
| 8.50-9.50 AM | Keynote 3: Error-Correction for Nanopore Readouts: From Contextual Deletions to Substring Permutations | Olgica Milenkovic, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign |
| 9.50-10.20 AM | Coffee break | |
| 10.20 AM-12.15 PM | T1: Invited and Technical Session | Information Theory and Machine Learning |
| 12.15-1.30 PM | Lunch Break | |
| 1.30-2.30 PM | Keynote 4: Diffusion Models Through the Lens of Information Theory | Henry Pfister, Duke University |
| 2.30-3.30 PM | Canadian IT Society Meeting | |
| 3.30- 3.50 PM | Break | |
| 3.50-5.50 PM | Student Competition | |
| 6.30-10.00 PM | Banquet | Marriott Harbourfront |
Wednesday June 10
| 8.30-8.45 AM | Registration | |
| 8.45-8.50 AM | Announcements | |
| 8.50-10.50 AM | Tutorial 4: Polar Decoders in Silicon: From Algorithms to Architectures | Warren Gross, McGill University |
| 10.50-11.20 AM | Coffee break | |
| 11.20 AM – 12.40 PM | W1: Technical Session | Cryptography Molecular Communications and Information Theory |
| 12.40-1.40 PM | Lunch Break | |
| 1.40 PM – 3.20 PM | W2: Technical Session | Wireless Communications |
| 3.20-3.40 PM | Break | |
| 3.40-4.20 PM | W3: Technical Session | Hashing and Distributed Computing |
Technical and Invited Sessions (Papers)
Sunday June 7
S1: Information Theory
Chair: Yongyi Mao
- 10:20 AM “Capacity of a class of fully-observed multistate Poisson-type signal transduction channel” D. T. Chen (Brown U, USA), A. Eckford (York U, Canada) & P. J. Thomas (Case Western Reserve U, USA)
- 10:40 AM “f-mutual information based Fano-type inequalities for arbitrary loss functions”, Z. Dong, Z. Liu & Y. Mao (U Ottawa, Canada)
- 11:00 AM “Goal-directed mutual information”, J. Bosulu & J. Gold (U Penn, USA)
Monday June 8
M1: Error-Correction Codes
Chair: Frank Kschischang
- 10:20 AM “Capacity-approaching variable-length constrained sequence codes,” I. Fair (U Alberta, Canada)
- 10:40 AM “Expansion-preserving gradient code,” Jiang & Wang (UBC, Canada)
- 11:00 AM “Joint source-channel coding with side information under a mutual information criterion,” C.-A. Cheng & J.-J. Weng (National Chung Cheng U, Taiwan)
- 11:20 AM “Genetic algorithm search for error-reducing quasi-cyclic LDPC codes,” J. Zhu & F. Kschischang (U Toronto, Canada)
- 11:40 AM “Thermodynamic analysis of message-passing decoders,” K. G. Abeywardena & S. Draper (U Toronto, Canada)
- 12:00 PM “Mixed-integer ADMM decoding for LDPC codes,” A. Ho & S. Draper (U Toronto, Canada)
M2: Optical Communications and Related Topics
Chair: Isaac Woungang
- 2:20 PM “Hardware implementation of ORDEPT decoder,” X. Huang, R. Hadavian, D. Truhachev & K. El-Sankary (Dalhousie U, Canada)
- 2:40 PM “The dual horizon: optical computing-communication integrated network,” H. T. Dao (RMIT University, Vietnam) & I. Woungang (Toronto Metropolitan U, Canada)
- 3:00 PM “ORDEPT decoding with likelihood thresholding,” R. Hadavian & D. Truhachev (Dalhousie U, Canada)
M3: Compressed Sensing and Information Theory
Chair: Lele Wang
- 3:40 PM “Information-theoretic limits on exact subgraph alignment,” C. H. M. Shiu, H. V. Cheng (Aarhus U, Denmark) & L. Wang (UBC, Canada)
- 4:00 PM “Sensing codebook design for structured sparse recovery problems,” N. Ghaddar, L. Wang (UBC, Canada), W. Yu (U Toronto, Canada)
- 4:20 PM (invited) “Universal priors: solving empirical Bayes via Bayesian inference and pretraining” Y. Han (New York U, USA)
- 4:45 PM (invited) Title TBD H. V. Cheng (Aarhus U, Denmark)
- 5:10 PM (invited) TBC J. Kang (Berkeley U, USA)
- 5:35 PM (invited) TBC X. Xu (Rochester U, USA)
Tuesday June 9
T1: Information Theory and Machine Learning
Chair: Sadaf Salehkalaibar
- 10:20 AM “Coded acknowledgement with random subspaces,” N. Kwan (U Toronto, Canada) , R. Song (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland) & W. Yu (U Toronto, Canada)
- 10.40 AM “On the optimality and hardness of supervised learning under average risk,” Z. Liu, Z. Dong & Y. Mao (U Ottawa, Canada)
- 11:00 AM (invited) “On the Fundamental Limits of Generative Communication” J. Chen (McMaster U, Canada)
- 11:25 AM (invited) Title TBD, W. Yu (U Toronto, Canada)
- 11:50 AM (invited) Title TBD, S. S. Bidokhti (U Penn, USA)
Wednesday June 10
W1: Cryptography, Molecular Communications, and Information Theory
Chair: Alexander Wietfeld
- 11:20 AM “Enhancing private search engine with optimal adaptive clustering and DP configuration,” G. Zheng (Xidian U, China), G. Gong (U Waterloo, Canada) & H. Li (Xidian U, China)
- 11:40 AM “Improving secure processing via RSA-integrated DNA-based hybrid cryptography,” A. Gulliver (U Victoria, Canada), K. Guenda (U Victoria, Canada) & S. Benatmane (University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria)
- 12:00 PM “Asynchronous NOMA for diffusion-based molecular communication networks,” A. Wietfeld & W. Kellerer (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
- 12.40 PM “A unique information metric for nonlinear systems,” K. P. Nelson (Photrek, Inc. & Raytheon Company, USA)
W2: Wireless Communications
Chair: Wei Yu
- 1:40 PM “How many simultaneous beamformers are needed for ISAC?, K. M. Attiah & W. Yu (U Toronto, Canada)
- 2:00 PM “Experimental evaluation of multi-hydrophone diversity combining for turbo-coded OFDM,” B. B, Nges & J.-F. Bousquet (Dalhousie U, Canada)
- 2:20 PM “Nonlinear SIM for wireless systems”, O. Abbas, A. Zayat, L. Markley & A. Chaaban (UBC, Canada)
- 2:40 PM “Delay-augmented SIM-assisted systems,” O. Abbas, H. Alwazani, L. Markley & A. Chaaban (UBC, Canada)
- 3:00 PM “Improving long-range mobile underwater communication in Arctic waters with FH-FSK,” J. Gaulin & J.-F. Bousquet (Dalhousie U, Canada)
W3: Hashing and Distributed Computing
Chair: Chen Feng
- 3:40 PM “Space upper bounds for α-perfect hashing,” R. Song & E. Telatar (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)
- 4:00 PM “Asynchronous coded distributed computing,” M. Ahmed, Y. Deng & A. Yassine (Lakehead U, Canada)
Instructions for Presenters
All regular presentations (based on accepted papers) are 20 minutes long, including questions. Invited presentations are 25 minutes long.
