Openings available for multiple Ph.D. students, visiting students, and a postdoc
Dr. Kangjie Lu, an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department of the University of Minnesota--Twin Cities, is hiring multiple Ph.D. students, visiting students, and a postdoc, who have strong interests and solid backgrounds in computer security, systems, software engineering, compilers, or machine learning.
Lu's research interests include security and privacy, software engineering, and systems. His research aims to find and fix classes of vulnerabilities and bugs in system software, and to harden widely used programs. His research group develops innovative techniques and tools that make practical impacts such as contributions to open-source projects, and tool adoption from industry and other research groups. His research results have been regularly published in top-tier conferences and journals such as S&P, CCS, NDSS, USENIX Security, EuroSys, ATC, and TDSC. His research won the Best Paper Award from ACM CCS 2019. More details can be found in his webpage: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu
All candidates with solid backgrounds in security, systems, software engineering, compilers, or machine learning are encouraged to apply. Candidates with good programming skills, knowledge on operating systems and programming languages, or experience on program analysis, hacking, and AI for security are particularly preferred. All candidates must be self-motivated, and have a strong interest in finding and solving research problems. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related majors is required. Ph.D. applications should be submitted through the official admission system. If you are interested in these positions, or have any questions regarding the positions or related research, please feel free to drop your email at kjlu@umn.edu
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