Ari Trachtenberg

Ari TrachtenbergAssociate Professor

PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2000

 Computer Engineering
 Information Sciences and Systems
Networking and Information Systems


(617) 358-1581
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office: PHO 427
office hours: by appointment

Honors, Awards, and Editorships

  • 2002 NSF CAREER Award
  • 2003 ECE Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • 2009 BU College of Engineering Innovative Engineering Education Faculty Fellow
  • Senior Member, IEEE

Classes Taught

  • EK131/132 Introduction to Engineering
  • EC327 Introduction to Software Engineering
  • EC330 Applied Algorithms for Engineers
  • EC504 Advanced Data Structures
  • EC700 Advanced Special Topics
  • EC727 Advanced Coding Theory

Research Interests

  • error correcting codes
  • security
  • data synchronization (especially for PDAs and mobile networks)
  • sensor-based location detection
  • algorithms

Additional Affiliations

Selected Publications

  • M. Laifenfeld, A. Trachtenberg, R. Cohen and D. Starobinski, “Joint Monitoring and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Robust Identifying Codes,” Mobile Networks and Applications, October 2008.
  • S. Agarwal, M. Laifenfeld, A. Trachtenberg, and M. Alanyali, “Fast data access over asymmetric channels using fair and secure bandwidth sharing,” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, July 2006.
  • Y. Minsky, A. Trachtenberg, and R. Zippel, “Set Reconciliation with Nearly Optimal Communication Complexity,” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 49:9, September 2003.
  • A. Trachtenberg, “Designing Lexicographic Codes with a Given Trellis Complexity,”
    IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 48:1, January 2002.
  • T. Etzion, A. Trachtenberg, and A. Vardy, “Which codes have cycle-free Tanner graphs?” IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 45:6, September 1999.