Yudong Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously he was an Associate Professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell University, and a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2013 from The University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Tsinghua University. His research interests include machine learning, high-dimensional and robust statistics and optimization. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2021.
A word from Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, Grace Wahba Professor and Chair of Computer Sciences:
Yudong’s research is at the interface of machine learning, statistics, and optimization. His work has earned multiple recognitions, including an NSF CAREER award and two NeurIPS spotlight presentations. He has also won a teaching excellence award and Professor of the Year award. It is our great pleasure to have him in the CS department.