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
May 2023: We are organizing the 9th SIGKDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series. The CFP can be found here. Please consider submitting your work.
Apr. 2023: Two papers accepted to ICML 2023 and three papers accepted to ISIT 2023.
Apr. 2023: Ph.D. student Chengshuai Shi received the 2023 Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s Louis T Rader Graduate Research Award. Congratulations!
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!