Virtual Seminar: Communication Design for Distributed Machine Learning

Seminar
Thursday, November 05, 2020
Online

Seminar will be delivered live via Zoom on Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 11:00AM - 12:00PM U.S. Central Time (CST / UTC -6).

The Zoom conferencing system is accessible to UT faculty, staff, and students with support from ITS. Otherwise, you can sign up for a free account on the Zoom website.

Speaker

Photo: Cong Shen
Professor
University of Science and Technology of China

Cong Shen received his B.S. and M.S. degrees, in 2002 and 2004 respectively, from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), in 2009. Prior to joining the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Virginia, Dr. Shen was a professor in the School of Information Science and Technology at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He also has extensive industry experience, having worked for Qualcomm Research, SpiderCloud Wireless, Silvus Technologies, and Xsense.ai, in various full time and consulting roles. His general research interests are in the area of communication theory, wireless communications, and machine learning. He was the recipient of the “Excellent Paper Award” in the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN 2017). Currently, he serves as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.