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Christian R Shelton

Statistical Approaches In Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Dynamic Systems Medical Informatics Applications Astroinformatics

About

Dr. Shelton is the Chair of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California at Riverside and a member of UCR's Data Science Center. He has been on the faculty since 2003. His research interests are in statistical approaches in artificial intelligence, with a focus on machine learning and dynamic systems. He has applied his work to areas ranging from astronomy to sociology to medical informatics. Dr. Shelton received his B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1996. He then obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 2001 and returned to Stanford from 2001 to 2003 as a post-doctoral scholar. He spent six months in 2003 and 2004 as a visiting faculty member at Intel Research and the 2012-13 academic year as a visiting researcher at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. He has been the Managing Editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research; he currently serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Machine Learning Research. Dr. Shelton is a member of Tau Beta Pi (the national engineering honor society) and Phi Beta Kappa (the national liberal arts and sciences honor society). He received the Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and was a member of DARPA's Computer Science Study Group.

Research Performance Summary

108
Total Papers
5385
Total Citations
36
H-Index
1996-2025
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Geometric manipulation of flexible ligands

Year: 1996

Citations: 52

Venue: Workshop on Applied Computational Geometry

Latest Recorded Paper

Mitigating Participation Imbalance Bias in Asynchronous Federated Learning

Year: 2025

Citations: 0

Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.19066

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2025
2
2024
3
2023
4
2022
3
2021
6
2020
5
2019
3
2018
4
2017
4
2016
1
2015
4

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 40
Journal 15
Book 0

Top Coauthors

Shelton Qin

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 2
Citations 1
Avg. Citations / Paper 0.5
H-Index 1

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 21
Citations 245
Avg. Citations / Paper 11.7
H-Index 9

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 16
Citations 335
Avg. Citations / Paper 20.9
H-Index 8

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 22
Citations 853
Avg. Citations / Paper 38.8
H-Index 12

2005-2009

Period Stats
Papers 22
Citations 2047
Avg. Citations / Paper 93
H-Index 13

2000-2004

Period Stats
Papers 18
Citations 1498
Avg. Citations / Paper 83.2
H-Index 11

1995-1999

Period Stats
Papers 7
Citations 406
Avg. Citations / Paper 58
H-Index 5

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

christian.shelton@ucr.edu
9518272554

Detected Research Keywords

Continuous Time Bayesian Time Bayesian Networks Continuous Time Markov Time Series Classification Electronic Market Maker Geometric Manipulation Flexible Time Markov Processes Neyman Scott Processes Learning Continuous Time Inference Continuous Time