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 am also a member of the UVA Link Lab. 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
Privacy-preserving machine learning
Wireless communications and networking
Prospective students: Two (2) PhD student positions and one (1) jointly advised PhD student position are currently available in my group. Starting date is Fall 2024 or Spring 2025. I am also looking for a strong post-doc to join my group. Please feel free to contact me with your CV and transcripts.
News
Jan. 2024: Wei's first paper has been accepted to AISTATS 2024 – Congratulations!
Jan. 2024: We are organizing The 3rd Workshop on Next Generation Spectrum Sharing Technology in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2024 in Denver, CO, USA. Please consider submitting your work.
Dec. 2023: Zihan's first paper has been accepted to IEEE ICASSP 2024 – Congratulations!
Sept. 2023: Ph.D. student Xizixiang Wei received the 2023-24 Endowed Graduate Fellowship from the Engineering School. Congratulations!
Sept. 2023: One paper accepted to NeurIPS 2023. This is Li's first paper – Congratulations!
Aug. 2023: I will serve as an Area Chair for AISTATS 2024.
July 2023: Awarded NSF CPS Medium project titled “Learning through the Air: Cross-Layer UAV Orchestration for Online Federated Optimization”.
July 2023: After a three-year hiatus, DySPAN is coming back! Please consider submitting your work.
July 2023: Ph.D. student Xizixiang Wei received the ECE Department McVey Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year. Congratulations!