The Systems and Software Security Research Lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of South Carolina is recruiting students. The research of our lab is focused on designing and building more secure systems and software, especially for mobile computing. We also work on security issues of machine learning and apply machine learning to resolving security problems. The PhD students will be fully funded with competitive assistantship. Both master and undergraduate students can apply.
Requirements for students: excellent coding skills and passion in research; GPA >= 3.2/4 (or top 30% in the class); Toefl >= 80 (or IELTS >= 6.5); GRE Q>=165 V>=150 (we can slightly lower the requirements on GRE and GPA if you are distinguished in other aspects, such as coding and research). If interested, please send your CV, GPA, transcripts, and English scores to Dr. Qiang Zeng zeng1(at)cse.sc.edu or Dr. Lannan Luo lluo(at)cse.sc.edu (please replace (at) with @ in the email address).
Please make sure your are truly interested in Systems and Software Security research before you apply. Research in this area typicall invovles very little maths, but requires high coding, innovation, and system building skills, and it needs you to work hard to succeed. I strongly suggest you take a look at our publications to see whether the research interests you.
研究:南卡大学属于卡内基分类中的R1大学, 其CS排名在全美排第86, 在Mobile Computing方面排第29名 (checked on Nov 19 2020)。 注意csrankings由于其客观性,现在越来越被广泛认可。我们组(Dr. Qiang Zeng and Dr. Lannan Luo's group)的研究都是学科最前沿的问题,非常有利于学生发高水平的论文。学生从PhD第一学期就有属于自己的project,而不是做工程性的coding或者给其他学生打下手,我们组的学生因此成长迅速。我们把比较多的精力和指导投入到学生身上,因材施教帮助学生找到合适的问题,大量的时间和学生一起讨论解决方案,甚至一起debug。我们组的选题都是既有趣,而且又关注最重要的研究问题,包括Internet of Things, UAV, NLP-inspired binary code analysis。