Cong Shen
Scholar

Cong Shen

Google Scholar ID: 70LBhKcAAAAJ
Associate Professor, University of Virginia
Multi-armed banditsReinforcement learningFederated learningWireless
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Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,250
 
H-index
28
 
i10-index
65
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
15
list available
Contact
Emailcong@virginia.eduGitHubOpen ↗
Publications
2 items
HeteroFedSyn: Differentially Private Tabular Data Synthesis for Heterogeneous Federated Settings
2026
Cited
0
Lean Clients, Full Accuracy: Hybrid Zeroth- and First-Order Split Federated Learning
2026
Cited
0
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • NSF CAREER Award recipient (2022)
  • Two papers accepted to NeurIPS 2025 (topics: bilevel optimization, RLHF)
  • One paper accepted to EMNLP Main Conference and one to EMNLP Findings (topics: in-context learning, Transformers, RAG)
  • Two papers accepted to ICML 2025 (topics: in-context learning, Transformers)
  • PhD student Zihan Chen awarded McVey Fellowship; Wei Shen awarded Wilson Bicentennial Grad Fellowship (Sept. 2025)
  • Co-organizing AAAI 2026 Workshop on AI for Time Series Analysis (AI4TS)
Co-authors
15 total
Jing Yang
Jing Yang
Associate Professor of ECE and CS, University of Virginia
Chengshuai Shi
Chengshuai Shi
Princeton Language and Intelligence
Jie Xu
Jie Xu
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida
Mihaela van der Schaar
Mihaela van der Schaar
University of Cambridge, The Alan Turing Institute
Ruida Zhou
Ruida Zhou
Amazon AGI
Kun Yang
Kun Yang
Google, University of Virginia
Wei Xiong
Wei Xiong
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Xizixiang Wei
Xizixiang Wei
University of Virginia