Publications

This page provides an overview on my publications so far.

Thesis

PhD thesis 2025Distributed 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 2020Exploitation 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.
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Journals and Journal-Length Computer Science Paper:

ICLR 2025Differentially 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.
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JSAIT 2024Controlled 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.
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JSAIT 2022Successive Approximated Coded Matrix Multiplication.
Shahrzad Kiani, Stark Draper
IEEE J. Selected Areas in Inf. Theory (JSAIT), 3 (No. 2), pp. 286-305, Jun. 2022.
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TIT 2021Hierarchical Coded Matrix Multiplication.
Shahrzad Kiani, Nuwan Ferdinand, Stark Draper
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), 67 (No. 2), pp. 726-754, Feb. 2021.
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Iranica 2019Iterative 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.
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Conference Papers and Letters

ISIT 2024Controlled Privacy Leakage Propagation Throughout Overlapping Grouped Learning
Shahrzad Kiani, Franziska Boenisch, Stark Draper
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece, Jul. 2024.
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ISIT 2022Successive Approximated Coded Matrix Multiplication
Shahrzad Kiani, Stark Draper
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 838-843, Espoo, Finland, Jun. 2022.
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ICASSP 2021Hierarchical 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.
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ICML WK 2019Cuboid 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.
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CWIT 2019 Hierarchical Coded Matrix Multiplication
Shahrzad Kiani, Nuwan Ferdinand, Stark Draper
IEEE Canadian Workshop Information Theory (CWIT), Hamilton, ON, Jun. 2019.
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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.
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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.
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