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Sanjay Shakkottai

Professor

Sanjay Shakkottai is a Professor in the ECE and CS Departments at The University of Texas at Austin, directs the Center for Generative AI, and holds the Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering #15. His research interests are in diffusion models and Generative AI, with applications in language models, image editing, and decision-making in wireless networks. He received his Ph.D. in ECE from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002.

Research

Research Areas:
Research Interests:
  • Generative AI
  • Statistical learning theory 
  • Network algorithms
Research Labs & Affiliations:

Center for Generative AI

Machine Learning Lab (MLL)

Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG)

Select Publications

Anchored Diffusion Language Model - NeurIPS 2025

Semantic Image Inversion and Editing using Stochastic Rectified Differential Equations - ICLR 2025

In-Context Learning with Transformers: Softmax Attention Adapts to Function Lipschitzness - NeurIPS 2024
Darwin: Flexible Learning-based CDN Caching- ACM SIGCOMM 2023 
InfoNCE Loss Provably Learns Cluster-Preserving Representations - COLT 2024

Awards & Honors

  • IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize (2021)
  • IEEE Fellowship (2014)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2004)

Contact Info

Sanjay Shakkottai
Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering, #15
Homepage
(512) 471-5376
sanjay.shakkottai@utexas.edu
EER 6.802