Ying Shen
Assistant Professor Computer Science Virginia Tech
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where I lead the Perception and LANguage (PLAN) Lab . I am also a member of the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Discovery Analytics , and an affiliate faculty member of the National Security Institute and the Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture .
Prior to VT, I spent a year as research scientist (Research Staff Member) at IBM Almaden Research Center, working on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval problems. I obtained my Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department , University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign , under the supervision of Prof. ChengXiang Zhai , Text Information Management and Analysis Group (TIMAN) . I was selected as an EECS Rising Star participant in 2019.
Ying Shen