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, United States 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, and optimization, with a broad range of applications including large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, efficient model training and inference, and AI in distributed systems. 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 served as an area chair of major AI and machine learning conferences, including AAAI, ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS. 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 Runner-Up of ACM MobiHoc 2025, 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.