New Approaches to the Design and Analysis of Graphical Models for Linear Codes and Secret Sharing Schemes

Professor Alexander Barg (ECE/ISR) is the principal investigator for a new NSF grant, New Approaches to the Design and Analysis of Graphical Models for Linear Codes and Secret Sharing Schemes. The three-year, $350K grant will fund new approaches to the design and analysis of graphical models for linear codes and secret sharing schemes. Error-correcting coding enables the design of reliable information transmission and storage systems. It also is universally used for sending packets of information over the internet, writing data on CDs and flash memory devices, and other similar means of modern communication. Barg’s research will devise new ways of constructing and analyzing the error-correcting schemes that are used for transmission.