PhD positions at VT in Dr. Ruoxi Jia's group

Two PhD and multiple internship openings (for undergraduate, MS, and current PhD) in Dr. Ruoxi Jia’s research group at Virginia Tech!

Dr. Ruoxi Jia is an assistant professor in the Bradley Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Virginia Tech starting from Fall 2020. She was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at UC Berkeley from 2018 to 2020. She earned her PhD in the EECS Department from UC Berkeley in 2018 and a B.S. from Peking University in 2013. Dr. Jia’s research interest lies broadly in the span of machine learning, security, privacy, and cyber-physical systems. Dr. Jia is the recipient of several fellowships, including the Chiang Fellowship for Graduate Scholars in Manufacturing and Engineering, the 8108 Alumni Fellowship, and the Okamatsu Fellowship. She was selected for the Rising Stars in EECS in 2017. Ruoxi’s work has been featured in multiple media outlets, including MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, and Synced.

Dr. Jia’s group is dedicated to building trustworthy machine learning solutions. Towards that end, her group works on a range of projects, including data valuation, adversarial machine learning, data privacy, AI-generated fake detection, explainable machine learning, and human-in-the-loop learning. The undergraduate and MS students Dr. Jia has mentored during her PhD and postdoc are accepted by prestigious PhD programs, such as UIUC, USC, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Maryland, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Toronto, or big tech companies, such as Apple and Facebook.

For more details, please visit https://ruoxijia.info/.

Interested applicant please send a CV to Dr. Ruoxi Jia at ruoxijia@vt.edu.