Cong Shen
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Assistant Professor Office: E-317 Thornton Hall |
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Virginia. I got my B.S. and M.S. from Tsinghua University, and Ph.D. from UCLA. I received the NSF CAREER award in 2022.
My research interests span a number of interdisciplinary topics in machine learning, communications, and networking, with an emphasis on theoretical models, algorithms, and practical engineering applications. Some of my current research topics are:
Federated learning and distributed/decentralized learning
Multi-armed bandits and reinforcement learning
Wireless communications and networking
News
Jan. 2023: New Ph.D. student Zihan Chen (BS and MS, USTC) joined the group. Zihan is co-advised by Prof. Jundong Li and me. Welcome!
Nov. 2022: Ph.D. student Chengshuai Shi received the 2022-23 Endowed Graduate Fellowship from the Engineering School. Congratulations!
Oct. 2022: I will serve as an Area Chair for AISTATS 2023.
Sept. 2022: I am appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking.
Sept. 2022: We welcome new Ph.D. student Wei Shen (BS, USTC) to join our group!
Aug. 2022: I was awarded a CCI CVN Innovation and Commercialization Grant to develop our FL platform.
Aug. 2022: Our research group participated in two outreach programs over the summer.
We hosted the Starr Hill Pathways Program students, who are rising 7th graders through high school in the Charlottesville area, for lab tours that was featured in UVA Today.
UVA SEAS Center for Diversity in Engineering organized the Summer Bridge Program, in which we presented machine learning, communications, and security to the participating students. See story.
Aug. 2022: Ph.D. students returned to school from summer internships: Chengshuai Shi with Bloomberg, Kun Yang with Intel Labs, and Yujia Mu with Dropbox.