Publications

This page provides an overview on my publications so far.

Thesis

PhD thesis 2025	Distributed Optimization Algorithms With Improved Efficiency, Reliability, And Privacy Preservation Shahrzad Kiani Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, June 2025.
MASc. thesis 2020	Exploitation of Stragglers in Hierarchical Coded Matrix Multiplication Shahrzad Kiani, Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, June 2020.

Journals and Journal-Length Computer Science Paper:

ICLR 2025	Differentially Private Federated Learning with Time-Adaptive Privacy Spending. Shahrzad Kiani, Nupur Kulkarni, Adam Dziedzic, Stark Draper, Franziska Boenisch International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), Singapore, 2025.
JSAIT 2024	Controlled Privacy Leakage Propagation Throughout Overlapping Grouped Learning. Shahrzad Kiani, Franziska Boenisch, Stark Draper IEEE J. Selected Areas in Inf. Theory (JSAIT), Vol 5, pp. 442-463, Jun. 2024.
JSAIT 2022	Successive Approximated Coded Matrix Multiplication. Shahrzad Kiani, Stark Draper IEEE J. Selected Areas in Inf. Theory (JSAIT), 3 (No. 2), pp. 286-305, Jun. 2022.
TIT 2021	Hierarchical Coded Matrix Multiplication. Shahrzad Kiani, Nuwan Ferdinand, Stark Draper IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), 67 (No. 2), pp. 726-754, Feb. 2021.
Iranica 2019	Iterative Method for Simultaneous Sparse Approximation. Sahar Sadrizadeh, Shahrzad Kiani, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, and Farokh Marvasti Scientia Iranica, Transaction D, Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, 26 (No. 3), pp. 1601-1607, Jun. 2019.

Conference Papers and Letters

ISIT 2024	Controlled Privacy Leakage Propagation Throughout Overlapping Grouped Learning Shahrzad Kiani, Franziska Boenisch, Stark Draper IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece, Jul. 2024.
ISIT 2022	Successive Approximated Coded Matrix Multiplication Shahrzad Kiani, Stark Draper IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 838-843, Espoo, Finland, Jun. 2022.
ICASSP 2021	Hierarchical Coded Elastic Computing Shahrzad Kiani, Tharindu Adikari, Stark Draper IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 4045-4049, Toronto, ON, Jun. 2021.
ICML WK 2019	Cuboid Partitioning for Hierarchical Coded Matrix Multiplication Shahrzad Kiani, Nuwan Ferdinand, Stark Draper IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Workshop on Coded Machine Learning, Los Angeles, CA, Jun. 2019.
CWIT 2019	Hierarchical Coded Matrix Multiplication Shahrzad Kiani, Nuwan Ferdinand, Stark Draper IEEE Canadian Workshop Information Theory (CWIT), Hamilton, ON, Jun. 2019.
ISIT 2018	Exploitation of Stragglers in Coded Computation Shahrzad Kiani, Nuwan Ferdinand, Stark Draper IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 1988-1992, Vail, Colorado, Jun. 2018.
SPL 2016	Heart Rate Tracking Using Wrist-type Photoplethysmographic (PPG) Signals During Physical Exercise With Simultaneous Accelerometery Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Ehsan Asadi, Mohsen Eskandari, Shahrzad Kiani, and Farokh Marvasti IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), 23 (No. 2), pp. 227-231, Feb. 2016.