Publications

Journal

1. Compressed Private Aggregation for Scalable and Robust Federated Learning over Massive Networks,
   N. Lang, N. Shlezinger, R. G. L. D’Oliveira and S. El Rouayheb,
   IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025.
   
   

2. A Guided Walk Through Coded Private Information Retrieval,
   R. G. L. D’Oliveira and S. El Rouayheb,
   IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine, 2024.
   
   

3. Generalized Rainbow Differential Privacy,
   Y. Gu, Z. Zhou, O. Günlü, R. G. L. D'Oliveira, P. Sadeghi, M. Médard, and R. F. Schaefer,
   Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 2024.
   
   

4. Optimal Binary Differential Privacy via Graphs,
   S. Torkamani, J. B. Ebrahimi, P. Sadeghi, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, and M. Médard,
   IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2024.
   
   

5. Absolute Security in Terahertz Wireless Links,
   A. Cohen, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, C. Yeh, H. Guerboukha, R. Shrestha, Z. Fang, E. Knightly, M. Médard, and D. M Mittleman,
   IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2023.
   
   

6. AES as Error Correction: Cryptosystems for Reliable Communication,
   A. Cohen, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, K. R. Duffy, J. Woo and M. Médard,
   IEEE Communications Letters, 2023.
   
   

7. Securing Angularly Dispersive Terahertz Links with Coding,
   C. Yeh, A. Cohen, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, M. Médard, D. M. Mittleman and E. W. Knightly,
   IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023.
   
   

8. Wideband Time Frequency Coding,
   K. Yang, S. Salamatian, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, and M. Médard,
   IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2023.
   
   

9. Private Multi-Group Aggregation,
   C. Naim, R. G. L. D'Oliveira, and S. El Rouayheb,
   IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2022.
   
   

10. Degree Tables for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira, S. E. Rouayheb, D. Heinlein and D. Karpuk,
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2021.
    
    

11. Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning,
    P. Kairouz, H. B. McMahan, B. Avent, A. Bellet, M. Bennis, A. N. Bhagoji, K. Bonawitz, Z., G. Cormode, R. Cummings, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, H. Eichner, S. El Rouayheb, D. Evans, J. Gardner, Z. Garrett, A. Gascón, B. Ghazi, P. B. Gibbons, M. Gruteser, Z. Harchaoui, C. He, L. He, Z. Huo, B. Hutchinson, J. Hsu, M. Jaggi, T. Javidi, G. Joshi, M. Khodak, J. Konecný, A. Korolova, F. Koushanfar, S. Koyejo, T. Lepoint, Y. Liu, P. Mittal, M. Mohri, R. Nock, A. Özgür, R. Pagh, H. Qi, D. Ramage, R. Raskar, M. Raykova, D. Song, W. Song, S. U. Stich, Z. Sun, A. T. Suresh, F. Tramèr, P. Vepakomma, J. Wang, L. Xiong, Z. Xu, Q. Yang, F. X. Yu, H. Yu and S. Zhao,
    Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning, 2021.
    
    

12. Network Coding-Based Post-Quantum Cryptography,
    A. Cohen, R. G. L. D'Oliveira, S. Salamatian, and M. Médard,
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2021.

13. Low Influence, Utility, and Independence in Differential Privacy: A Curious Case of 3C2,
    R. G. L. D'Oliveira, S. Salamatian, M. Médard, and P. Sadeghi,
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2021.
    
    

14. GASP Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira, S. El Rouayheb and D. Karpuk,
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2020.
    
    

15. One-Shot PIR: Refinement and Lifting,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira and S. El Rouayheb,
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2020.
    
    

16. A distance between channels: the average error of mismatched channels,
    R. G. L. D'Oliveira and M. Firer,
    Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 2018.
    
    

17. Channel Metrization,
    R. G. L. D'Oliveira and M. Firer,
    European Journal of Combinatorics, 2018.
    
    

18. Minimum dimensional Hamming embeddings,
    R. G. L. D'Oliveira and M. Firer,
    Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 2017.
    
    

19. Geometry of communication channels: metrization and decoding,
    R. G. L. D'Oliveira and M. Firer,
    Symmetry: Culture and Science, 2016.
    
    

20. The packing radius of a code and partitioning problems: The case for poset metrics on finite vector spaces,
    R. G. L. D'Oliveira and M. Firer,
    Discrete Mathematics, 2015.

Conference

1. Optimal Computational Secret Sharing,
   I. L. Aureliano, A. Cohen, and R. G. L. D'Oliveira, 
   IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, June 2025.
   
   

2. A New Framework for Designing Polynomial Codes for Private Information Retrieval,
   F. Kazemi, N. Wang, A. Sprintson; R. G. L. D'Oliveira,
   Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, USA, September 2024.
   
   

3. A Monotone Circuit Construction for Individually-Secure Multi-Secret Sharing,
   C. Bass, A. Cohen, R. G. L. D'Oliveira, and M. Medard,
   IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Athens, Greece, July 2024.
   
   

4. Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication with Precomputation,
   R. Cartor, R. G. L. D'Oliveira, S. El Rouayheb, D. Heinlein, D. Karpuk, and  A. Sprintson,
   IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Athens, Greece, July 2024.
   
   

5. Error Correction Capabilities of Non-Linear Cryptographic Hash Functions,
   A. Cohen and R. G. L. D’Oliveira,
   IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Athens, Greece, July 2024.
   
   

6. Network Coding-Based Post-Quantum Cryptography for Multi-Users with Different Security Permissions,
   A. Cohen and R. G. L. D’Oliveira,
   IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Athens, Greece, July 2024.
   
   

7. CRYPTO-MINE: Cryptanalysis via Mutual Information Neural Estimation,
   B. D. Kim, V.  A. Vasudevan, J. Woo, A. Cohen, R. G. L. D'Oliveira, T. Stahlbuhk, and M. Médard,
   IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seoul, Korea, April 2024.
   
   

8. A Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Mismatched Guesswork,
   A. Mariona, H. Esfahanizadeh, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, and M. Médard,
   IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2023.
   
   

9. CPA: Compressed Private Aggregation for Scalable Federated Learning Over Massive Networks,
   N. Lang, E. Sofer, N. Shlezinger, R. G. L. D’Oliveira and S. El Rouayheb,
   IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023.
   
   

10. A Bivariate Invariance Principle,
    A. Mariona, H. Esfahanizadeh, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, and M. Médard,
    IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Mumbai, India, November 2022.
    
    

11. Absolute Security in High-Frequency Wireless Links,
    A. Cohen, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, C. Yeh, H. Guerboukha, R. Shrestha, Z. Fang, E. W. Knightly, M. Médard, and D. Mittleman,
    IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, Austin TX, USA, October 2022.
    
    

12. Degree Tables for Private Information Retrieval,
    F. Kazemi, N. Wang, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, and A. Sprintson,
    Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello IL, USA, September 2022.
    
    

13. Partial Encryption after Encoding for Security and Reliability in Data Systems,
    A. Cohen, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, K. R. Duffy, and M. Médard,
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Espoo, Finland, June 2022.
    
    

14. Heterogeneous Differential Privacy via Graphs,
    S. Torkamani, J. B. Ebrahimi, P. Sadeghi, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, and M. Médard,
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Espoo, Finland, June 2022.
    
    

15. Rainbow Differential Privacy,
    Z. Zhou, Onur Günlü, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, M. Médard, P. Sadeghi, and Rafael F. Schaefer,
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Espoo, Finland, June 2022.
    
    

16. Angularly Dispersive Terahertz Links with Secure Coding: From Theoretical Foundations to Experiments,
    C. Yeh, A. Cohen, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, M. Médard, D. M. Mittleman, and E. W. Knightly,
    ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, San Antonio TX, USA, May 2022.
    
    

17. Post-Quantum Security for Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Heterogeneous Networks,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira, A. Cohen, J. Robinson, T. Stahlbuhk, and M. Médard,
    IEEE Military Communications Conference, San Diego CA, USA, November 2021.
    
    

18. Field Trace Polynomial Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication,
    R. Assis Machado, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, S. El Rouayheb, and D. Heinlein,
    XVII International Symposium Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems, Moscow, Russia, October 2021.
    
    

19. Cabdriver: Concentration to Accurate Boundaries while Distorting Randomly Input Variables to Elude Recognition,
    R. Thesmar, J. Thesmar, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, M. Médard,
    The 25th International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, French Riviera, France November 2021.
    
    

20. Differential Privacy for Binary Functions via Randomized Graph Colorings,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira, M. Médard, and P. Sadeghi,
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Melbourne, Australia, July 2021.
    
    

21. Private Multi-Group Aggregation,
    C. Naim, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, and S. El Rouayheb,
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Melbourne, Australia, July 2021.
    
    

22. Secure Coded Computation for Efficient Distributed Learning in Mobile IoT,
    Y. Yang, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, S. El Rouayheb, X. Yang, H. Seferoglu, and Y. Chen,
    IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, Virtual Conference, July 2021.
    
    

23. Wideband Time Frequency Coding,
    K. Yang, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, S. Salamatian, and M. Médard,
    IEEE 31st Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Virtual Conference, August 2020.
    
    

24. Notes on Communication and Computation in Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira, S. El Rouayheb, D. Heinlein and D. Karpuk,
    IEEE International Workshop on Privacy and Security for Information Systems, Avignon, France, July 2020.
    
    

25. Degree Tables for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira, S. El Rouayheb, D. Heinlein and D. Karpuk,
    IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Visby, Gotland, Sweden, August 2019.
    
    

26. GASP Codes for Secure Distributed Matrix Multiplication,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira, S. El Rouayheb and D. Karpuk,
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Paris, France, July 2019.
    
    

27. The Computational Wiretap Channel,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira, S. El Rouayheb, and M. Médard,
    Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello IL, USA, September 2018.
    
    

28. Lifting Private Information Retrieval from Two to any Number of Messages,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira and S. El Rouayheb,
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Vail CO, USA, (June 2018).
    
    

29. A Distance Between Channels,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira, M. Firer,
    The 10th International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, September 2017.
    
    

30. BIGnav: Bayesian Information Gain for Guiding Multiscale Navigation,
    W. Liu, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, M. Beaudouin-Lafon, and O. Rioul,
    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver CO, USA, May 2017.
    
    

31. Embedding Distances into the Hamming Cube,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira, M. Firer,
    The 9th International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, Paris, France, April 2015.
    
    

32. The packing radius of a code and partitioning problems: The case for poset metrics,
    R. G. L. D’Oliveira and M. Firer,
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Honolulu HI, USA, June 2014.

Book Chapters

When Information Is a Function of Data – Some Information Theoretic Perspectives on Semantic Communications,
A. Mariona, H. Esfahanizadeh, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, and M. Médard,
in Foundations of Semantic Communication Networks, W. Saad, C. Chaccour, C. K. Thomas, and M. Debbah (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, pp. 111-123, 2024.

Patents

Network Coding‑Based Post‑Quantum Cryptography,
M. Medard, A. Cohen, R. G. L. D’Oliveira, and S. Salamatian
U.S. Patent No. 12,261,949, Mar. 25, 2025.