Lisha Chen
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering (Joining in July 2025)
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 2025
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Short Biography
Lisha Chen is expected to receive her Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2025. She obtained her M.S. from RPI in 2021, and her B.S. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2017. She will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester in July 2025 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.
Her research has been featured in leading machine learning and signal processing conferences and journals, including NeurIPS, ICML, AISTATS, ICASSP, and JMLR. She is a recipient of the IBM-AIRC Fellowship and the IEEE Signal Processing Society Scholarship. Additionally, she has served as a tutorial speaker at ICASSP and AAAI.
Research Overview
Research Interests
- Optimization
- Machine learning theory
- Statistical signal processing