Cong Shen
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Associate Professor Office: E-317 Thornton Hall |
I am an Associate 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 AI/ML and its engineering applications. Some of my current research topics are:
In-context learning and Transformers
Reinforcement learning and multi-armed bandits
Distributed and decentralized learning
AI/ML for wireless
News
Nov. 2025: Yujia Mu successfully defended her dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Mu!
Oct. 2025: Co-organzing AAAI 2026 Workshop on AI for Time Series Analysis (AI4TS): Theory, Algorithms, and Applications.
Sept. 2025: PhD student Zihan Chen received the McVey Fellowship, and PhD student Wei Shen received the Wilson Bicentennial Grad Fellowship. Congratulations!
Sept. 2025: Two papers accepted to NeurIPS 2025. Topics include bilevel optimization and RLHF. See publication for details.
Aug. 2025: One paper accepted to EMNLP Main Conference and one paper accepted to EMNLP Findings. Topics include in-context Learning, Transformers, and RAG.
Aug. 2025: Area Chair for AISTATS 2026 and ICLR 2026.
Aug. 2025: Lead organizer for AI4NextG Workshop @ NeurIPS’25. Submission deadline: August 29, 2025. Check our website for more details.
May 2025: I started the role of Deputy Director of Collaboration at SpectrumX.
May 2025: Two papers accepted to ICML 2025. Topics include in-context learning and transformers. See publication for details.