Contact Information:

University of California, Riverside
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521

Office: Multidisciplinary Research Building, room 4118
Tel: (951) 827-2554
E-mail: cshelton@cs.ucr.edu

Bio

Less Serious Version

Dr. Shelton has degrees in Computer Science. He did well in school and wanted to stay, so he became a Professor of Computer Science, which he has been doing for "some time now." He likes thinking about and designing computer systems that learn and adapt. He's tried to be helpful by sharing his ideas in research papers, guiding students to graduation, and working with others. He is still trying to make his Erdös-Bacon number finite.

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More Serious Version

Dr. Shelton is the Chair of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of California at Riverside and a member of UCR's Data Science Center. He has been on the faculty since 2003. His research interests are in statistical approaches in artificial intelligence, with a focus on machine learning and dynamic systems. He has applied his work to areas ranging from astronomy to sociology to medical informatics.

Dr. Shelton received his B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1996. He then obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 2001 and returned to Stanford from 2001 to 2003 as a post-doctoral scholar. He spent six months in 2003 and 2004 as a visiting faculty member at Intel Research and the 2012-13 academic year as a visiting researcher at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. He has been the Managing Editor of the Journal of Machine Learning Research and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research; he currently serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Machine Learning Research.

Dr. Shelton is a member of Tau Beta Pi (the national engineering honor society) and Phi Beta Kappa (the national liberal arts and sciences honor society). He received the Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and was a member of DARPA's Computer Science Study Group.