PhD student openings in Software Systems/Security at Washington State University

Multiple fully funded RA positions for Computer Science (CS) PhD students are available in the Software Reliability and Security group within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Washington State University (WSU), Pullman, WA.
Research in the group currently focuses on the security and other quality aspects of mobile apps, distributed systems, and multi-language software, primarily through developing and applying scalable and cost-effective program analysis techniques in synergy with data-driven (especially deep learning) approaches. The group is well funded by several U.S. federal grants on projects aiming to address
(1) data quality problems in learning deep code models for software vulnerability analysis (e.g., leveraging generative models for automated, massive generation of realistic data samples to support training of powerful, generalizable DL code models),
(2) autonomic information security defense in adversarial and dynamic environments mainly through efficient system profiling and (deep) reinforcement learning, and
(3) vulnerability discovery from indutry-scale distributed software systems via scalable program analysis techniques.

Incoming PhD students are expected to work one of these projects for the next 4~5 years with funding assured, although students interested in other software engineering/system and mobile apps/security topics are equally welcome with sufficient funding support as well.

Applicants expecting to start in Spring 2022, Fall 2022, and beyond are all considered, until the openings are filled.

• For Spring 2022 applicants, the official deadline has passed but applications are still being accepted (please act as soon as possible if interested).
• For Fall 2022 applicants, please note the application deadline is January 10, 2022.
  

For more information, please check out the professor's webpage at chapering.github.io, where the general expectations for PhD applicants are outlined.

For any questions, please contact the professor directly.




补充内容 (2021-10-16 06:56 +8:00):
For Spring 2022 and Fall 2022 applications, we do NOT require GRE scores.

織川秀雄 发表于 2021-10-18 01:03
老师好：
有3点疑惑，恳请解答：
1.请问你对博士生的毕业标准为何?

谢谢你的问题。

1.请问你对博士生的毕业标准为何?

按系基本要求（24 credits + 2 top-tier publications); 鼓励学生有更高追求 但不要求。质量大于数量. 理想情况是phd学生到毕业时应该具备自己独立研究的能力

2.您已毕业的Ph.D. Students有几位? 分別读了几年phd?

目前没有。第一位将于spring2022毕业，届时5年

3.全奖博士 有几年的fund?(含RA、TA?)、每年大约多少USD?

从入学到毕业; full tuition + fringe benefits (health insurance, etc.) + 2100+/month stipend

While continuing to look for students for the three funded projects listed in the original post, we now look further for additional RAs to work on another recently funded project:
(4)  program analysis and run-time support for testing and validation of multi-language software systems, and their applications to discovering and diagnosing correctness bugs and security vulnerabilities across (programming) languages.

Please feel free to reach out to the professor should you have any questions.

We do not require GRE scores for Fall 2022 admissions.

As the application deadline is approaching fast (in a month), please act quickly if you are interested.

老师好：
有3点疑惑，恳请解答：
1.请问你对博士生的毕业标准为何?
2.您已毕业的Ph.D. Students有几位? 分別读了几年phd?
3.全奖博士 有几年的fund?(含RA、TA?)、每年大约多少USD?

WSU最近招了不少老师

sresthc 发表于 2021-10-19 02:27
谢谢你的问题。

1.请问你对博士生的毕业标准为何?

谢谢老师解答。

和教授聊过，教授非常nice，给了我很多关于申请、关于学术生涯的建议，主动建议我去联系他目前的学生问组里情况，这是非常难得的，组里的项目也很promising，地里的小伙伴们积极联系申请·！

duckduck113 发表于 2021-10-23 09:30
和教授聊过，教授非常nice，给了我很多关于申请、关于学术生涯的建议，主动建议我去联系他目前的学生问组里 ...

非常感谢你的时间和反馈！

目前仍有2个opennings 欢迎有志向做好的研究的同学尽快提交申请(due date: Jan. 15) 有任何问题请随时联系老师.

Fall 2022申请还有一周截止，提醒一下有意申请的同学请尽快提交. GRE分数不需要, TOEFL可在申请提交后送分。