She works in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science as a professor of electrical and computer engineering and area director for signals and systems.
She joined the faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles after postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She also serves on the board of governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society.
[2] With Frederic Sala, Dolecek is the coauthor of the book Channel Coding Methods for Non-Volatile Memories (Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, Now Publishing, 2016).
Dolecek was named a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Information Theory Society for 2021–2022.