康大 (UConn) PhD in AI/Robotics/Time Series for Fall 2026

The Intelligent Systems Lab in the School of Computing at UConn has a PhD student position available for Fall 2026.

Flyer for PhD Student Recruitment
[Open for Fall 2026]

We are looking for self-motivated students with strong mathematical and programming skills to work with us on computer vision, natural language processing, and reinforcement learning projects. For general inquiries, please email to shihao.ji@uconn.edu with your CV and any supporting documents. Publications in major DL, CV, NLP, CG, Robotics conferences or journals are a big advantage.

About PI: Dr. Jonathan Shihao Ji is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at University of Connecticut (UConn). His principal research interests lie in the area of deep learning and its applications to computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics, with an emphasis on high-performance computing. He has published over 50 papers in top-ranked journals and prestigious conferences with high impact factors, including CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, ECCV, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, AIStats, BMVC, ECML, ICIP, IJCNN, EMNLP, SIGIR, CIKM, COLING, IEEE TPAMI, TSP, TKDE, TPDS, IEEE Internet of Things Journal etc. His research has been supported by federal agencies, including NSF, NIH, DoD, ARO, as well as industry companies, such as VMware, Cisco, Nvidia, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Dr. Ji received his Ph.D. in ECE from Duke University in 2006. Before joining UConn, he was an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Georgia State University and Director of the DoD Center of Excellence (CiARE). Prior to returning to academia, he spent approximately 10 years in industry research labs. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

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