Yanning Shen
Yanning Shen
Associate Professor
Department of EECS
Department of CS (Joint appointment, WoS)
University of California, Irvine
Email: yannings@uci.edu
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My research interests span the areas of trustworthy machine learning, network science, and statistical signal processing, along with their applications in social, brain, gene-regulatory, environmental, financial, and IoT systems.
I am looking for self-motivated undergrad and grad students. For students at UCI, please contact me and include your research interest, CV, transcripts, as well as writing samples (if any) in your email. For prospective graduate students, please apply to UCI ECE or Network Systems and mention my name in your application.
Selected Awards (See Awards tab for the full list)
2025 NSF CAREER Award
2024-2025 Academic Senate Distinguished Junior Faculty Award for Research
2024 Samueli School of Engineering Faculty Excellence in Research Award
2023 UCI CORCL Research Award
2023 Newkirk Faculty Fellow
2022 MIT Technology Review Innovators under 35 Asia Pacific
2022-2023 Hellman Fellowship Award
2022 Google Research Scholar Award
2022 UCI CORCL Research Award
2021 Microsoft Academic Grant Award for AI Research
2020 Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing, and Libraries (CORCL) Research Award
2018-2019 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, UMN
2017 Rising Stars in EECS
News
News
08/2025 New collaborative work "Deploying AI for Signal Processing education: Selected challenges and intriguing opportunities" accepted by the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
07/2025 Two papers accepted by the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2025! Congratulations to Erfan and Deniz!
06/2025 Our group got the NSF CAREER Award!
05/2025 Deniz passed her PhD defense. Congratulations!
05/2025 Ruijie passed his PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations!
04/2025 Yanning started serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks
02/2025 Yanning will be serving as a Technical Area Chair of Asilomar 2025
01/2025 Yanning is elected as a member of the IEEE SPM Technical Committee
11/2024 Pouya passed his PhD defense. Congratulations!
10/2024 Yanning organized the special session "Machine Learning over Graphs" in Asilomar 2024.
09/2024 Four papers accepted by NeuRIPS 2024. Congratulations to Pouya, Deniz, and Erfan!
09/2024 Our paper "Long-term Fairness For Real-time Decision Making: A Constrained Online Optimization Approach" R. Du, D. Muthirayan, P. P Khargonekar, Y. Shen is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. Congratulations to Ruijie on his first journal publication!
09/2024 The group received a new NSF grant on "BLoG: A Bi-Level Optimization Framework for Learning Over Graphs."
08/2024 Yanning received the 2024-2025 Academic Senate Distinguished Junior Faculty Award for Research!
07/2024 Our paper "Fair Vision Transformer via Adaptive Masking" B. Tian, R. Du, Y. Shen got was accepted by the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024). Congratulations Bowei and Ruijie!
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