Ilan Shomorony
Associate Professor
Studies information theory and machine learning for genomics, including genome assembly and data science algorithms.
Ilan Shomorony's lab at UIUC works on genomics & computational biology, signal processing & information theory and data management & big data. 26 papers since 2023, 6 at top venues, mostly ISIT and AISTATS. 8 alumni, most often to Apple and Chicago Trading Company. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 23%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 8
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 8 papers2025 · T1 1
- 7 papers2024 · T1 2
- 9 papers2023 · T1 2
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ISIT, AISTATS, Bioinformatics, NeurIPS, ALT
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Data management & big data5 papers
- Signal processing & information theory2 papers
- Genomics & computational biology0 papers
- genome0 papers
- studies information0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- AISTATS (T1)Fundamental Limits of Non-Adaptive Group Testing with Markovian Correlation
- IEEE Transactions on Information TheoryRecovering a Message from an Incomplete Set of Noisy Fragments (opens in a new tab)
20258 papers
- IEEE Transactions on Signal ProcessingAggregated Kalman filter: efficient switching linear dynamic estimation via merging priors (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Information TheoryCapacity of Frequency-based Channels: Encoding Information in Molecular Concentrations (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LCapacity-Aware Planning and Scheduling in Budget-Constrained Multi-Agent MDPs: A Meta-RL Approach (opens in a new tab)
- AISTATS (T1)Dynamic DBSCAN with Euler Tour Sequences
- ISITFragmentation in Data Deduplication Systems I: The Stretch Metric
- ISITFragmentation in Data Deduplication Systems II: the Jump Metric
- ISITGuaranteed Recovery of Unambiguous Clusters
- IEEE Transactions on Information TheoryReducing Fragmentation in Data Deduplication Systems via Partial Repetition and Coding (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, Special IssueAn Information Theory for Out-of-Order Media With Applications in DNA Data Storage (opens in a new tab)
- CISSAn Instance-Based Approach to the Trace Reconstruction Problem
- BioinformaticsFast Multiple Sequence Alignment via Multi-Armed Bandits (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Faster Maximum Inner Product Search in High Dimensions
- IEEE Transactions on Information TheoryFundamental Limits of Reference-Based Sequence Reordering (opens in a new tab)
- TMLR (T1)Prioritized Federated Learning: Leveraging Non-Priority Clients for Targeted Model Improvement (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Information TheorySubstring Density Estimation from Traces (opens in a new tab)
20239 papers
- ALTAdaptive power method: Eigenvector estimation from sampled data
- NeurIPS (T1)BanditPAM++: Faster k-medoids Clustering
- IEEE Transactions on CommunicationsDNA Merge-Sort: A Family of Nested Varshamov-Tenengolts Reassembly Codes for Out-of-Order Media (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Efficient Learning of Linear Graph Neural Networks via Node Subsampling
- ISITFinding a Burst of Positives via Nonadaptive Semiquantitative Group Testing
- ISITFundamental Limits of Multiple Sequence Reconstruction from Substrings
- BioinformaticsLexicHash: sequence similarity estimation via lexicographic comparison of hashes (opens in a new tab)
- ISITOn Constant-Weight Binary B2-Sequences
- IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale CommunicationsThe Metagenomic Binning Problem: Clustering Markov Sequences (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went8 listed, 60% to industry
Industry 3Academia 2
Most often to
- Apple
- Chicago Trading Company
Also to
- Los Angeles City College
- Yale University
Apply to UIUCFall 2027
UIUC Siebel Computer Science PhD
- Round
- Single round
- Opens
- —
- GRE
- optional
- English
- TOEFL iBT / IELTS
- Fee
- USD 90
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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