Professor Shiqiang Wang

Shiqiang Wang is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, United Kingdom. He was a researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA until Oct. 2025. He received his Ph.D. from Imperial College London, United Kingdom, in 2015. His research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), distributed computing, networking, and optimization, currently emphasizing quality and efficiency aspects related to distributed data and models, with a broad range of applications including distributed data analytics, efficient model training and inference, edge-based artificial intelligence (Edge AI), and large language models (LLMs). He has made foundational contributions to edge computing and federated learning that generated both academic and industrial impact. Dr. Wang serves as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He has also been actively organizing workshops at the intersection of edge computing and machine learning, and regularly participates in technical program committees (TPCs) of prominent conferences and review panels of research grants. He received the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Leonard G. Abraham Prize in 2021, IEEE ComSoc Best Young Professional Award in Industry in 2021, IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards (OTAA) in 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023, multiple Invention Achievement Awards from IBM since 2016, Best Paper Finalist of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2019, and Best Student Paper Award of the Network and Information Sciences International Technology Alliance (NIS-ITA) in 2015. He is a senior member of the IEEE.