Yi Shen

Email: ys267@duke.edu

I'm a final-year Ph.D. student at Duke University, advised by Prof. Michael Zavlanos.

• Risk-sensitive Optimization
• Operational Management in Health System
• Multi-agent RL

Distributionally Robust Optimization

• Outlier-Robust Distributionally Robust Optimization via Unbalanced Optimal Transport
  Zifan Wang, Yi Shen, Michael M. Zavlanos and Karl H. Johansson
  NeurIPS 2024
   
• Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Policy Evaluation and Learning for Contextual Bandits
  Yi Shen, Pan Xu and Michael M. Zavlanos
  TMLR 2023 [Featured Certification]
   

(Risk-averse) Online Optimization

• Risk-Averse No-Regret Learning in Online Convex Games
  Zifan Wang, Yi Shen, and Michael M. Zavlanos
  ICML 2022
   
• Risk-averse Multi-armed Bandits with Unobserved Confounders
  Yi Shen, Jessilyn Dunn and Michael M. Zavlanos
  CDC 2022
   
• Asynchronous Zeroth-Order Distributed Optimization with Residual Feedback
  Yi Shen, Yan Zhang, Scott Nivison, Zachary I. Bell and Michael M. Zavlanos
  CDC 2021
   

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

• Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation in Robotic Warehouse
  Yi Shen, Benjamin McClosky, Joseph W. Durham and Michael M. Zavlanos
  CDC 2023
   

• AAAI, AISTATS, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, TMLR, IEEE CDC, IEEE L-CSS, Automatica

• Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization in Machine Learning, Fidelity AI Center, 11/2024
• Risk-averse Online Learning, Assured Autonomy in Contest Environments, UC Santa Cruz, 04/2022

• 08/2019 - Present: PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, Duke University, USA
• 08/2017 - 05/2019: MSc in Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• 09/2013 - 06/2017: BEng in Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, China

• 05/2023 - 08/2023: Research Scientist Intern, Amazon Robotics
• 05/2022 - 08/2022: Research Scientist Intern, Amazon Robotics

• A collection of football jerseys