Publications

Published

• 1. R. Khabbaz, M. Antonini, S. Kas Hanna, Marker Guess & Check Plus (MGC+): An Efficient Short Blocklength Code for Random Edit Errors, 13th International Symposium on Topics in Coding (ISTC), Los Angeles, 2025.

  2. D. Lazzarotto, M. Testolina, S. Kas Hanna, O. Watanabe, E. San Antonio, X. Pic, M. Dimopoulou, M. Antonini, T. Ebrahimi, Overview of JPEG DNA Coding System for Image Storage on Synthetic DNA, SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing XLVIII, San Diego, 2025.

  3. S. Kas Hanna, On the Reliability of Information Retrieval From MDS Coded Data in DNA Storage, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Ann Arbor, 2025.

  4. R. Khabbaz, M. Antonini, S. Kas Hanna, Novel Efficient Codes for Correcting Random Edit Errors in DNA Storage, New Trends in DNA-based Data Storage conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2025. 

  5. O. Makkonen, S. Niemelä, C. Hollanti, and S. Kas Hanna, Approximate Gradient Coding for Privacy-Flexible Federated Learning with Non-IID Data, 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lyon, 2024.

  6. S. Kas Hanna, Short Systematic Codes for Correcting Random Edit Errors in DNA Storage, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, 2024.

  7. S. Kas Hanna, Optimal Codes Detecting Deletions in Binary Strings Applied to Coded Trace Reconstruction, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 69, No. 9, 2023.

  8. M. Egger, S. Kas Hanna, and R. Bitar, Fast and Straggler-Tolerant Distributed SGD with Reduced Computation Load, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Taipei, 2023.

  9. S. Kas Hanna, Z. Tan, W. Xu, and A. Wachter-Zeh, Codes Correcting Burst and Arbitrary Erasures for Reliable Low-Latency Communication, 47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes, 2023.

  10. S. Kas Hanna, Coding for Trace Reconstruction Over Multiple Channels With Vanishing Deletion Probabilities, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Helsinki, 2022.

  11. S. Kas Hanna and S. El Rouayheb, Codes for Correcting Localized Deletions, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 67, No. 4, 2021.

  12. S. Kas Hanna and R. Bitar, Detecting Deletions and Insertions in Concatenated Strings with Optimal Redundancy, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Melbourne, 2021.

  13. R. Bitar, S. Kas Hanna, N. Polianskii, and I. Vorobyev, Optimal Codes Correcting Localized Deletions, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Melbourne, 2021.

  14. S. Kas Hanna, R. Bitar, P. Parag, V. Dasari, and S. El Rouayheb, Adaptive Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent for Minimizing Delay in the Presence of Stragglers, 45th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Barcelona, 2020.

  15. S. Kas Hanna and S. El Rouayheb, List Decoding of Deletions Using Guess & Check Codes, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, 2019.

  16. S. Kas Hanna and S. El Rouayheb, Guess & Check Codes for Deletions, Insertions, and Synchronization, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 65, No. 1, 2019.

  17. S. Kas Hanna and S. El Rouayheb, Correcting Bursty and Localized Deletions Using Guess & Check Codes, 55th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2017.

  18. S. Kas Hanna and S. El Rouayheb, Guess & Check Codes for Deletions and Synchronization, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Aachen, 2017.

  19. M. Khoder, S. Kas Hanna, J. Khoder and R. Younes, Multi-Criteria Classification Method for Dimensionality Reduction Adapted to Hyperspectral Images, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS) 11(2), 025001, 2017.

under review/preprints

• 1. S. Kas Hanna, On the Reliability of Information Retrieval From MDS Coded Data in DNA Storage, arXiv:2502.06618 [cs.IT], 2025.

  2. S. Kas Hanna, GC+ Code: A Systematic Short Blocklength Code for Correcting Random Edit Errors in DNA Storage, arXiv:2402.01244 [cs.IT], 2024.

  3. O. Makkonen, S. Niemelä, C. Hollanti, and S. Kas Hanna, Approximate Gradient Coding for Privacy-Flexible Federated Learning with Non-IID Data, arXiv:2404.03524 [cs.LG], 2024.

  4. S. Kas Hanna, R. Bitar, P. Parag, V. Dasari, and S. El Rouayheb, Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Descent for Fast and Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning, extended version, 2023.

  5. S. Kas Hanna and S. El Rouayheb, List Decoding of Deletions Using Guess & Check Codes, extended version, 2019.

phd thesis

• S. Kas Hanna, Guess & Check Codes for Deletions, Insertions, and Synchronization, Rutgers University, 2020.