If I were to capture the essence of my work in a newspaper headline, I’d say…

“I work at the intersection of AI/ML and NextG wireless systems.”

Background

Cong Shen is currently an Assistant Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Virginia (UVA). His general research interests are in the area of machine learning and wireless communications. In particular, his current research focuses on multi-armed bandits, reinforcement learning, federated learning, and their engineering applications. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2022. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), and the Excellent Paper Award in the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN 2017). Currently, he serves as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, and IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking. He previously served as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in 2016–2021, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2018–2023. He was the TPC co-chair of the Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE Globecom 2021, and actively serves as (senior) program committee members/reviewers for Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), and AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He is a founding member of SpectrumX, an NSF Spectrum Innovation Center.