Christian R Shelton
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
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
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