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Contact Information

Address: Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia
85 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4740

Office: Rice Hall, Room 302
Lab: Rice Hall, Room 220

Phone: (434) 924-8271
Fax: (434) 982-2214
Email: hs6ms at virginia dot edu

Dr. Haiying (Helen) Shen is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Systems & Information Engineering and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Virginia. Her research interest focuses on Distributed computing including LLM systems, Systems for machine learning (ML) and ML for systems, Cloud and edge computing, Cyber-physical systems, Internet of things. She was a recipient of the TCSC Mid-career Award 2015, IBM Faculty Award 2015, the NSF CAREER Award 2013, the Sigma Xi Clemson Chapter Young Investigator of the Year Award 2013, and the Microsoft Faculty Fellowship Award 2010.

Postdoc Fellowships & Graduate Research Assistantships are available. Interested students please contact Dr. Shen for further information.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

S. Luo and H. Shen, No Buffer, No Bottleneck: Efficient Zero-Copy KV Cache Offloading for Long-Context LLMs, 20th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), July 13-15, 2026, Seattle, WA, USA

S. S. Shubha, H. Shen and A. Iyer, USHER: Holistic Interference Avoidance for Resource Optimized ML Inference, 18th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), July 10-12, 2024, Santa Clara, CA, USA

S. S. Shubha and H. Shen, AdaInf: Data Drift Adaptive Scheduling for Accurate and SLO-guaranteed Multiple-Model Inference Serving at Edge Servers, Proc. of SIGCOMM, September 10-14, 2023, New York, NY, USA

X. Zhang, T. Sen, Z. Zhang, T. April, B. Chandrasekaran, D. Choffnes, B. M. Maggs, H. Shen, R. K. Sitaraman, X. Yang, AnyOpt: Predicting and Optimizing IP Anycast Performance, Proc. of SIGCOMM, August 23-27, 2021, Virtual Conference


RECENT ACTIVITIES

PANEL

Panelist, AI Safety and Robustness for the Tactical Edge, 6th International Workshop on Internet of Things in Adversarial Environments (IoTAE 2026), held in conjunction with IEEE MILCOM 2026, Washington, DC, October 12, 2026

KEYNOTE TALKS

Keynote Speaker, Sustainable AI Serving Through Resource-Aware Scheduling, SUSTAIN-HPC 2026: Workshop on Sustainable High-Performance Computing, held in conjunction with the 55th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2026)

INVITED TALKS:

Rethinking KVCache Management for LLM Coding Agents, AgentSys @ OSDI, July 2026

RESEARCH ON SELF DRIVING CARS:

Self-Driving Cars: Cruising Towards a Secure Future - CCI CVN
Prototyping Data-driven Cyber-Attack Detection Techniques in Autonomous Vehicles