Very rarely does one individual simultaneously make central contributions to math, science and engineering — but Claude Shannon was a rare individual. quantamagazine.org/how-claude-sha…

Our recent work that designs the communication phases of federated learning when both model upload and download processes are over noisy channels. Comments are welcome!

Can federated learning be applied to solving bandit problems? Check out our #AAAI2021 paper "Federated Multi-Armed Bandits" that establishes a general FMAB framework that parallels FL with many strikingly similar characteristics. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2101.12204

This is fascinating! Does it still need ADC? phys.org/news/2021-02-q…

Our ECE seminar series is open to public this year! Feel free to sign up for talks that are of interest to you. Every Friday 10am ET.

I have had the great fortune of learning from the best engineers, and now it’s time to give back! #EngineersWeek

Claude Shannon (1916-2001) founded the subject of information theory, died 24 Feb www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Sh…

Explore the Internet of Skills with Toktam Mahmoodi during UVA ECE’s March 12 webinar. Mahmoodi will share examples of her work with artists, medical professionals and industry experts and discuss underlying research. at.virginia.edu/3v12odL

PMLR Volume 130 Proceedings of AISTATS 2021 Is now available proceedings.mlr.press/v130/

Random access is a fundamental technology in modern wireless systems. Come and join us on March 25 to learn how RA impacts next gen M2M and beyond 5G.

Learn how to search for rare events among a massive number of possibilities in UVA ECE’s April 2 webinar with Qing Zhao, Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering Cornell University. Zhao’s approach navigates the search space with optimal learning efficiency. bit.ly/3do8f4R

UVA Engineering welcomes Jennifer L. West, our 14th dean. West is assoc. dean for PhD education and the Fitzpatrick Family University Prof. in biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering & materials science at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. at.virginia.edu/svnRa8

A note to myself

Join Vince Poor’s April 30 UVA ECE webinar about enabling technologies for 6G wireless networks. Poor will outline four paradigm shifts driving innovation: global coverage; enhanced efficiency; greater intelligence; and network security. at.virginia.edu/BcfzkU

First in person group meeting in a long time!

Come and join us, either in person or virtually!

We collected 409 pairs of shoes in our annual shoe drive! Thank you kindergarten for organizing.

Proud advisor moment!

What’s the connection between bandits and LLMs? We found a surprisingly effective approach using best arm identification for prompt learning. Led by two of my amazing students Chengshuai Shi and Kun Yang. Check out the paper & code!

If you are at #NeurIPS2024, please stop by our two posters on in-context learning and LLM on Friday. The prompt optimization work will be in East Exhibit Hall A-C #2800 11:00 - 2:00, and the transformer as game player work will be in East Exhibit Hall A-C #2704 16:30 - 19:30.