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Ming Shi

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Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering (UB Homepage)

Affiliated with Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo)

Faculty Collaborator, Department of Computer Secience and Engineering, The Ohio State University

Email: mshi24 [AT] buffalo [DOT] edu (preferred), shi.1796 [AT] osu [DOT] edu

Office: 228 Davis Hall

Dr. Shi received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in 2022. His Ph.D. advisor is Prof. Xiaojun Lin. From 2022 to 2024, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA, and was affiliated with the NSF AI-EDGE Institute, hosted by Prof. Ness Shroff and Prof. Yingbin Liang.

Research interests

    Dr. Shi's research strives to develop AI-powered autonomous networked systems with strong theoretical performance guarantees under dynamics, uncertainty, and practical domain-specific constraints, with a focus on:

  • Reinforcement Learning, Bandit Learning, and LLMs

  • Online (Non-)Convex Optimization and Online Control

  • Networking, Wireless Communication, and Edge-AI

  • Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, and Recommendation Systems

  • Power Systems, Data Security, and Social Networks