Academics

Caryn Conley is a Lecturer at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin teaching courses in programming and systems development in the Information, Risk, and Operations Management department. She is also the Program Director for the MS program in Information Technology and Management and the Faculty Advisor for MISA, the student association for MIS undergraduate students. Prior to joining McCombs, Caryn was the Program Director for undergraduate and graduate programs at the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University in the Information Technology and Operations Management department. Before pursing a career in academia, Caryn was an IT Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
 
Caryn received her PhD (2008) and MPhil (2004) in Business Administration from the New York University Stern School of Business, Department of Information, Operations, and Management Systems. She also received her BBA from The University of Texas at Austin in Management Information Systems and Business Honors in 1999. Her research interests include online communities, open source software development, software design, motivation, user innovation and crowdsourcing.

Awards:

• Participant in the 2007 ICIS Doctoral Consortium, Montreal, Canada  2007
• Joseph H. Taggart Fellowship          2006-2007
• Participant in the 2006 Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London   2006
• Participant in the 2005 OCIS Doctoral Consortium, Academy of Management, Hawaii  2005
• Leonard N. Stern School of Business Award for Teaching Excellence    2005

Publications:

• Tosti-Kharas, J. and Conley, C. A. (2016) Coding psychological constructs in text using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: A reliable, accurate, and efficient alternative. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(741). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00741
• Conley, C. A., and Tosti-Kharas, J. (2014). Crowdsourcing Content Analysis for Managerial Research, Management Decision, 52(4), 675-688. Impact factor: 1.302
• Conley, C. A. (2013). Network organisations through communication technology. In Wolfgang Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication. London: Blackwell Publishing.
• Sproull, L., Conley, C. A., and Moon, J. (2013).  Prosocial behavior on the net. In Yair Amichai-Hamburger (Ed.), The Social Net: The Social Psychology of the Internet, 2nd Edition, 143-164. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Conley, C. A. (2009). Work design for volunteers: The case of Open Source Software development. In the Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Caryn Conley is a Lecturer at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin teaching courses in programming and systems development in the Information, Risk, and Operations Management department. She is also the Program Director for the MS program in Information Technology and Management and the Faculty Advisor for MISA, the student association for MIS undergraduate students. Prior to joining McCombs, Caryn was the Program Director for undergraduate and graduate programs at the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University in the Information Technology and Operations Management department. Before pursing a career in academia, Caryn was an IT Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
 
Caryn received her PhD (2008) and MPhil (2004) in Business Administration from the New York University Stern School of Business, Department of Information, Operations, and Management Systems. She also received her BBA from The University of Texas at Austin in Management Information Systems and Business Honors in 1999. Her research interests include online communities, open source software development, software design, motivation, user innovation and crowdsourcing.

Awards:

• Participant in the 2007 ICIS Doctoral Consortium, Montreal, Canada  2007
• Joseph H. Taggart Fellowship          2006-2007
• Participant in the 2006 Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London   2006
• Participant in the 2005 OCIS Doctoral Consortium, Academy of Management, Hawaii  2005
• Leonard N. Stern School of Business Award for Teaching Excellence    2005

Publications:

• Tosti-Kharas, J. and Conley, C. A. (2016) Coding psychological constructs in text using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: A reliable, accurate, and efficient alternative. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(741). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00741
• Conley, C. A., and Tosti-Kharas, J. (2014). Crowdsourcing Content Analysis for Managerial Research, Management Decision, 52(4), 675-688. Impact factor: 1.302
• Conley, C. A. (2013). Network organisations through communication technology. In Wolfgang Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication. London: Blackwell Publishing.
• Sproull, L., Conley, C. A., and Moon, J. (2013).  Prosocial behavior on the net. In Yair Amichai-Hamburger (Ed.), The Social Net: The Social Psychology of the Internet, 2nd Edition, 143-164. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Conley, C. A. (2009). Work design for volunteers: The case of Open Source Software development. In the Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Caryn Conley is a Lecturer at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin teaching courses in programming and systems development in the Information, Risk, and Operations Management department. She is also the Program Director for the MS program in Information Technology and Management and the Faculty Advisor for MISA, the student association for MIS undergraduate students. Prior to joining McCombs, Caryn was the Program Director for undergraduate and graduate programs at the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University in the Information Technology and Operations Management department. Before pursing a career in academia, Caryn was an IT Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
 
Caryn received her PhD (2008) and MPhil (2004) in Business Administration from the New York University Stern School of Business, Department of Information, Operations, and Management Systems. She also received her BBA from The University of Texas at Austin in Management Information Systems and Business Honors in 1999. Her research interests include online communities, open source software development, software design, motivation, user innovation and crowdsourcing.

Awards:

• Participant in the 2007 ICIS Doctoral Consortium, Montreal, Canada  2007
• Joseph H. Taggart Fellowship          2006-2007
• Participant in the 2006 Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, London   2006
• Participant in the 2005 OCIS Doctoral Consortium, Academy of Management, Hawaii  2005
• Leonard N. Stern School of Business Award for Teaching Excellence    2005

Publications:

• Tosti-Kharas, J. and Conley, C. A. (2016) Coding psychological constructs in text using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: A reliable, accurate, and efficient alternative. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(741). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00741
• Conley, C. A., and Tosti-Kharas, J. (2014). Crowdsourcing Content Analysis for Managerial Research, Management Decision, 52(4), 675-688. Impact factor: 1.302
• Conley, C. A. (2013). Network organisations through communication technology. In Wolfgang Donsbach (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Communication. London: Blackwell Publishing.
• Sproull, L., Conley, C. A., and Moon, J. (2013).  Prosocial behavior on the net. In Yair Amichai-Hamburger (Ed.), The Social Net: The Social Psychology of the Internet, 2nd Edition, 143-164. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Conley, C. A. (2009). Work design for volunteers: The case of Open Source Software development. In the Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management Annual Meeting

Alex Dimakis is an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department, University of Texas at Austin. From 2009 until 2012 he was with the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 and M.S. degree in 2005 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from UC Berkeley and the Diploma degree from the National Technical University of Athens in 2003. During 2009 he was a CMI postdoctoral scholar at Caltech.

He received an ARO young investigator award in 2014, the NSF Career award in 2011, a Google faculty research award in 2012, served as an IEEE Distinguished lecturer for 2016-2017 and received the Eli Jury dissertation award in 2008. He is the co-recipient of several best paper awards including the joint Information Theory and Communications Society Best Paper Award in 2012. He served two terms as an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing letters and is currently serving as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. His research interests include information theory, coding theory and machine learning.

Awards: 

Communication Theory Workshop (CTW) Invited Plenary Speaker, May 2015

IEEE Distinguished lecturer (Information Theory society), 2015

Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award, June 2014

Keynote speaker, Workshop on Big Dynamic Distributed Data (in conjunction with VLDB 2013)

Joint Information Theory and Communications Society Best Paper Award, 2012

Google Faculty Research Award, 2012.

IEEE ComSoc Data Storage Committee Best Paper Award, 2010

NSF Career Award, 2011

Keynote speaker, 2010 IEEE Int. Symposium on Network Coding.

<2008 Eli Jury Dissertation Award.

Microsoft Research Fellowship for 2007-2008

Best Paper award in IEEE/ACM Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’05)

Publications:

M. Ji, A. Tulino, J. Llorca, A.G. Dimakis, “Finite Length Analysis of Caching-Aided Coded Multicasting,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appear.
I. Tamo, D. Papailiopoulos, A.G. Dimakis, “Optimal Locally Repairable Codes and Connections to Matroid Theory,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appear.
A. Le, A.G. Dimakis, and A. Markopoulou, “Auditing for Distributed Storage Systems,” to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2016.
A.S. Rawat, D.S. Papailiopoulos, A.G. Dimakis and S. Vishwanath, “Locality and Availability in Distributed Storage.” IEEE Trans. Information Theory 62(8): 4481-4493, 2016.
A.S. Rawat, Z. Song, A.G. Dimakis and A. Gal, “Batch Codes Through Dense Graphs Without Short Cycles,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory 62(4): 1592-1604 (2016)
I. Mitliagkas, M. Borokhovich, A.G. Dimakis, C. Caramanis, FrogWild! Fast PageRank Approximations on Graph Engines. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2015, accepted for publication. (Preliminary version appeared in NIPS Workshop.)
N. Lee, A.G. Dimakis, and R.W. Heath Jr., “Index Coding with Coded Side-Information,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 319-322, March 2015.
D. Papailiopoulos and A.G. Dimakis, “Locally Repairable Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 60 (10), pp. 5843-5855, Oct. 2014.
M. Sathiamoorthy, A.G. Dimakis, B. Krishnamachari and F. Bai, “Distributed Storage Codes Reduce Latency in Vehicular Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.: 13, Issue: 9, pp. 2016-2027, September 2014.

Alex Dimakis is an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department, University of Texas at Austin. From 2009 until 2012 he was with the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 and M.S. degree in 2005 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from UC Berkeley and the Diploma degree from the National Technical University of Athens in 2003. During 2009 he was a CMI postdoctoral scholar at Caltech.

He received an ARO young investigator award in 2014, the NSF Career award in 2011, a Google faculty research award in 2012, served as an IEEE Distinguished lecturer for 2016-2017 and received the Eli Jury dissertation award in 2008. He is the co-recipient of several best paper awards including the joint Information Theory and Communications Society Best Paper Award in 2012. He served two terms as an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing letters and is currently serving as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. His research interests include information theory, coding theory and machine learning.

Awards: 

Communication Theory Workshop (CTW) Invited Plenary Speaker, May 2015

IEEE Distinguished lecturer (Information Theory society), 2015

Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award, June 2014

Keynote speaker, Workshop on Big Dynamic Distributed Data (in conjunction with VLDB 2013)

Joint Information Theory and Communications Society Best Paper Award, 2012

Google Faculty Research Award, 2012.

IEEE ComSoc Data Storage Committee Best Paper Award, 2010

NSF Career Award, 2011

Keynote speaker, 2010 IEEE Int. Symposium on Network Coding.

<2008 Eli Jury Dissertation Award.

Microsoft Research Fellowship for 2007-2008

Best Paper award in IEEE/ACM Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’05)

Publications:

M. Ji, A. Tulino, J. Llorca, A.G. Dimakis, “Finite Length Analysis of Caching-Aided Coded Multicasting,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appear.
I. Tamo, D. Papailiopoulos, A.G. Dimakis, “Optimal Locally Repairable Codes and Connections to Matroid Theory,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appear.
A. Le, A.G. Dimakis, and A. Markopoulou, “Auditing for Distributed Storage Systems,” to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2016.
A.S. Rawat, D.S. Papailiopoulos, A.G. Dimakis and S. Vishwanath, “Locality and Availability in Distributed Storage.” IEEE Trans. Information Theory 62(8): 4481-4493, 2016.
A.S. Rawat, Z. Song, A.G. Dimakis and A. Gal, “Batch Codes Through Dense Graphs Without Short Cycles,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory 62(4): 1592-1604 (2016)
I. Mitliagkas, M. Borokhovich, A.G. Dimakis, C. Caramanis, FrogWild! Fast PageRank Approximations on Graph Engines. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2015, accepted for publication. (Preliminary version appeared in NIPS Workshop.)
N. Lee, A.G. Dimakis, and R.W. Heath Jr., “Index Coding with Coded Side-Information,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 319-322, March 2015.
D. Papailiopoulos and A.G. Dimakis, “Locally Repairable Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 60 (10), pp. 5843-5855, Oct. 2014.
M. Sathiamoorthy, A.G. Dimakis, B. Krishnamachari and F. Bai, “Distributed Storage Codes Reduce Latency in Vehicular Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.: 13, Issue: 9, pp. 2016-2027, September 2014.

Alex Dimakis is an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department, University of Texas at Austin. From 2009 until 2012 he was with the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in 2008 and M.S. degree in 2005 in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) from UC Berkeley and the Diploma degree from the National Technical University of Athens in 2003. During 2009 he was a CMI postdoctoral scholar at Caltech.

He received an ARO young investigator award in 2014, the NSF Career award in 2011, a Google faculty research award in 2012, served as an IEEE Distinguished lecturer for 2016-2017 and received the Eli Jury dissertation award in 2008. He is the co-recipient of several best paper awards including the joint Information Theory and Communications Society Best Paper Award in 2012. He served two terms as an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing letters and is currently serving as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. His research interests include information theory, coding theory and machine learning.

Awards: 

Communication Theory Workshop (CTW) Invited Plenary Speaker, May 2015

IEEE Distinguished lecturer (Information Theory society), 2015

Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award, June 2014

Keynote speaker, Workshop on Big Dynamic Distributed Data (in conjunction with VLDB 2013)

Joint Information Theory and Communications Society Best Paper Award, 2012

Google Faculty Research Award, 2012.

IEEE ComSoc Data Storage Committee Best Paper Award, 2010

NSF Career Award, 2011

Keynote speaker, 2010 IEEE Int. Symposium on Network Coding.

<2008 Eli Jury Dissertation Award.

Microsoft Research Fellowship for 2007-2008

Best Paper award in IEEE/ACM Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN ’05)

Publications:

M. Ji, A. Tulino, J. Llorca, A.G. Dimakis, “Finite Length Analysis of Caching-Aided Coded Multicasting,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appear.
I. Tamo, D. Papailiopoulos, A.G. Dimakis, “Optimal Locally Repairable Codes and Connections to Matroid Theory,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, to appear.
A. Le, A.G. Dimakis, and A. Markopoulou, “Auditing for Distributed Storage Systems,” to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2016.
A.S. Rawat, D.S. Papailiopoulos, A.G. Dimakis and S. Vishwanath, “Locality and Availability in Distributed Storage.” IEEE Trans. Information Theory 62(8): 4481-4493, 2016.
A.S. Rawat, Z. Song, A.G. Dimakis and A. Gal, “Batch Codes Through Dense Graphs Without Short Cycles,” IEEE Trans. Information Theory 62(4): 1592-1604 (2016)
I. Mitliagkas, M. Borokhovich, A.G. Dimakis, C. Caramanis, FrogWild! Fast PageRank Approximations on Graph Engines. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2015, accepted for publication. (Preliminary version appeared in NIPS Workshop.)
N. Lee, A.G. Dimakis, and R.W. Heath Jr., “Index Coding with Coded Side-Information,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 319-322, March 2015.
D. Papailiopoulos and A.G. Dimakis, “Locally Repairable Codes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 60 (10), pp. 5843-5855, Oct. 2014.
M. Sathiamoorthy, A.G. Dimakis, B. Krishnamachari and F. Bai, “Distributed Storage Codes Reduce Latency in Vehicular Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.: 13, Issue: 9, pp. 2016-2027, September 2014.