NATALIA SILBERSTEIN: CURRICULUM VITAE (last update 2/07/2015)

Personal Data E-mail: [email protected] Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/nataliasilberstein Marital status: married, three children Place of birth: Novosibirsk, Russia Citizenship: Israel I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, since September 2013.

Research interests Coding for distributed storage systems, network coding, algebraic error-correcting codes, applications of combinatorial designs and graphs to coding theory.

Education 2007-2011 PhD in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, Technion Advisor: Prof. Tuvi Etzion Thesis: Coding Theory and Projective Spaces GPA 98.9

PhD Dissertation Defense: October 2011 2004-2007 MSc in Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Technion, summa cum laude Advisor: Prof. Tuvi Etzion Thesis: Properties of Codes in the Johnson Scheme GPA: 94.1, Exam grade: 96

MSc Dissertation Defense: April 2007 2000-2004 BA in Computer Sciences, Department of Computer Science, Technion, cum laude B.A. in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Technion, cum laude Graduation: July 2004

Research Appointments 2013-present Postdoctoral Fellow Host: Prof. Tuvi Etzion, Department of Computer Science, Technion, Israel 2011-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow Host: Prof. Sriram Vishwanath, Wireless Networking and Communications Group, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas, Austin, USA

Visiting Positions June 2012, June 2013 Visiting Researcher Host: Prof. Joachim Rosenthal, Applied Algebra Group, Department of Mathematics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Awards 2011: Finalist of The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2009: Faculty of Computer Science Excellence Fellowship for Graduate Students 2008: Lior Markin Memorial Excellence Scholarship 2007: Neeman Fellowship for Ph.D. Students 2002: Shelley Sosewitz Memorial Scholarship 2001: Yoram Tirosh Memorial Scholarship 2000-2004: Technion President’s list of excellent students Computer science Dean’s list of excellent students

Teaching experience 2010 2009 2007-2011 2004-2007 2004-2007

Teaching Assistant in “Digital Sequences in Coding and Communication”, Technion, CS Teaching Assistant in “Algebraic Graph Theory and Combinatorial Designs”, Technion, CS Teaching Assistant in “Combinatorics for Computer Science”, Technion, CS Teaching Assistant in “Ordinary Differential Equations”, Technion, Mathematics Teaching Assistant in “Linear Algebra”, Technion, Mathematics

Academic Activity October 2013 - present: MC Member of ICT COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action IC1104: Random Network Coding and Designs over GF(q) Journal Reviews IEEE Transactions on Information Theory IEEE Transactions on Communications IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking Advances in Mathematics of Communications Designs, Codes and Cryptography Discrete Applied Mathematics

Publications Theses Coding Theory and Projective Spaces, N. Silberstein, Ph.D. thesis, Technion, 2011. Properties of Codes in the Johnson Scheme, N. Silberstein, M.Sc. thesis, Technion, 2007. Journal Publications 1. N. Silberstein and T. Etzion, “Optimal Fractional Repetition Codes based on Graphs and Designs”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 8, pp. 1 - 17, August 2015, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2015.2442231. 2. N. Silberstein and A.-L. Trautmann, “Subspace Codes based on Graph Matchings, Ferrers Diagrams and Pending Blocks”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 3937 3953, July 2015, DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2015.2435743. 3. N. Silberstein and A. Gál, “Optimal Combinatorial Batch Codes based on Block Designs”, accepted to Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 2014, DOI: 10.1007/s10623-014-0007-9. 4. J. Rosenthal, N. Silberstein, and A.-L. Trautmann, “On the Geometry of Balls in the Grassmannian and List Decoding of Lifted Gabidulin Codes”, Designs, Codes and Cryptography, Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 393 - 416, 2014. 5. A. S. Rawat, O. O. Koyluoglu, N. Silberstein, and S. Vishwanath, “Optimal Locally Repairable and Secure Codes for Distributed Storage Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 212 - 236, January 2014. 6. T. Etzion and N. Silberstein, “Codes and Designs Related to Lifted MRD Codes”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 1004 - 1017, February 2013. 7. N. Silberstein and T. Etzion, “Large Constant Dimension Codes and Lexicodes”, Advances in Mathematics of Communications (AMC) Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 177-189, 2011. 8. N. Silberstein and T. Etzion, “Enumerative Coding for Grassmannian Space”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 365 - 374, January 2011. 9. T. Etzion and N. Silberstein, “Error-Correcting Codes in Projective Spaces Via Rank-Metric Codes and Ferrers Diagrams”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 7, pp. 2909–2919, July 2009. Submitted Journal Papers • N. Silberstein, A. S. Rawat, and S. Vishwanath, “Error-Correcting Regenerating and Locally Repairable Codes via Rank-Metric Codes”, under revision, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Papers in Preparation • N. Raviv, N. Silberstein, and T. Etzion, “Constructions of High-Rate MSR Codes over Small Fields” Invited Talks 1. N. Silberstein and T. Etzion, "Optimal Fractional Repetition Codes for Distributed Storage Systems", in proc. IEEE 28th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI 2014), pp. 1-4, Eilat, Israel, December 2014. 2. A. S. Rawat, N. Silberstein, O. O. Koyluoglu, and S. Vishwanath, "Secure Distributed Storage Systems: Local Repair with Minimum Bandwidth Regeneration", in proc. International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP 2014), pp. 5 - 8, Athens, Greece, May 2014 . 3. N. Silberstein and T. Etzion, "Optimal Fractional Repetition Codes", Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA 2014), San-Diego, USA, February 2014. 4. N. Silberstein, “Coding for Distributed Storage Systems via Rank-Metric Codes”, Conference on Random Network Codes and Designs over GF(q), Ghent, Belgium, Sep. 2013 (one hour presentation). 5. A. S. Rawat, N. Silberstein, O. O. Koyluoglu, and S. Vishwanath, "Optimal Locally Repairable Codes with Local Minimum Storage Regeneration via Rank-Metric Codes", Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), San-Diego, USA, February 2013. Conferences 1. N. Silberstein and T. Etzion, "Optimal Fractional Repetition Codes and Fractional Repetition Batch Codes", accepted to IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2015). 2. N. Silberstein and A. Zeh, "Optimal Binary Locally Repairable Codes via Anticodes", accepted to IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2015). 3. N. Raviv, N. Silberstein, and T. Etzion, “Access-optimal MSR Codes with Optimal Sub-packetization over Small Fields”, Recent results session, ISIT 2015. 4. N. Silberstein, "Fractional Repetition and Erasure Batch Codes", Fourth International Castle Meeting on Coding Theory and Applications, Palmela, Portugal, September 2014. 5. N. Silberstein and T. Etzion, "Optimal Fractional Repetition Codes", Algebra, Codes and Networks, Bordeaux, France, June 2014. 6. N. Silberstein, A. S. Rawat, O. O. Koyluoglu, and S. Vishwanath, "New Optimal Locally Repairable Codes via Rank-Metric Codes", in proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2013), pp. 1819 - 1823, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013.

7. N. Silberstein and A.-L. Trautmann, "New Lower Bounds for Constant Dimension Codes", in proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2013), pp. 514 - 518, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013. 8. G. M. Kamath, N. Silberstein, N. Prakash, A. S. Rawat, V. Lalitha, O. O. Koyluoglu, P. V. Kumar, and S. Vishwanath, "Explicit MBR All-Symbol Locality Codes", in proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2013), pp. 504 - 508, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013. 9. A. S. Rawat, O. O. Koyluoglu, N.Silberstein, and S. Vishwanath, "Secure Locally Repairable Codes for Distributed Storage Systems", in proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2013), pp. 2224 - 2228, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2013. 10. N. Silberstein and A.-L. Trautmann, "New Lower Bounds for Constant Dimension Codes", Zurich COST Meeting - Random Network Coding and Designs over GF(q), June 2013. 11. A.-L. Trautmann, N. Silberstein, and J. Rosenthal, "List Decoding of Lifted Gabidulin Codes via the Plucker Embedding", in proc. International Workshop on Coding and Cryptography (WCC 2013), pp. 538-548, Bergen, Norway, April 2013. 12. N. Silberstein, A. S. Rawat, O. O. Koyluoglu, and S. Vishwanath, "Optimal Locally Repairable Codes via Rank-Metric Codes", Workshop on Trends in Coding Theory, Ascona, Switzerland, November, 2012. 13. N. Silberstein, A. S. Rawat, and S. Vishwanath, "Error Resilience in Distributed Storage via RankMetric Codes", in proc. 50th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton 2012), pp. 1150 - 1157, Monticello, IL, USA, October 2012. 14. N. Silberstein and T. Etzion, “Codes and Designs Related to Lifted MRD Codes”, in proc. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2011), pp. 2199 - 2203, Saint Petersburg, Russia, July-August 2011. 15. N. Silberstein and T. Etzion, “On Perfect Codes in the Johnson Graph”, in proc. Twelfth International Workshop on Algebraic and Combinatorial Coding Theory, (ACCT 2010), pp. 262 - 267, Novosibirsk, Russia, September 2010. 16. N. Silberstein and T. Etzion,“Large Constant Dimension Codes and Lexicodes”, Algebraic Combinatorics and Applications (ALCOMA 10), Thurnau, Germany, April 2010. 17. N. Silberstein and T. Etzion, “Enumerative Encoding in the Grassmannian Space”, in proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2009), pp. 544 - 548, Taormina, Sicily, October 2009. 18. T. Etzion and N. Silberstein, “Construction of Error-Correcting Codes For Random Network Coding”, in proc. IEEE 25th Convention of Electrical & Electronics Engineers in Israel (IEEEI 2008), pp. 70 - 74, Eilat, Israel, December 2008.

References • Prof. Tuvi Etzion Department of Computer Science Technion E-mail: [email protected] http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~etzion/ (PhD supervisor) • Prof. Sriram Vishwanath Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Texas at Austin E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ece.utexas.edu/people/faculty/sriram-vishwanath (Postdoc host) • Prof. Joachim Rosenthal Department of Mathematics University of Zurich E-mail: [email protected] http://user.math.uzh.ch/rosenthal/ • Prof. Anna Gál Department of Computer Science University of Texas at Austin E-mail: [email protected] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~panni/ • Prof. P. Vijay Kumar Department of Electrical Communication Engineering Indian Institute of Science Bangalore E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ece.iisc.ernet.in/~vijay/

• Prof. Shu Lin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California Davis E-mail: [email protected] http://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/lin/ • Prof. Camilla Hollanti Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis Aalto University E-mail: [email protected] http://math.aalto.fi/en/people/camilla.hollanti