{AI in Health/IOT/ML}[Texas State University] [Multiple PhD positions]

Position Description: The Department of Computer at Texas State University has Ph.D. scholarships available in Fall 2022 with a guarantee of three years of support pending satisfactory progress in research and course work.   We are seeking students who are interested in applying AI to health. In particular, the student will be involved in a National Science Foundation-funded collaborative research project on fall risk analysis and detection in elderly population using multi-modal machine learning techniques. Students will be working directly with Dr.Ngu and have the opportunity to also interact with physicians from the University of Texas, Dell Medical school and computer vision faculty at Illinois Institute of Technology, and access to human activity data from real-world participants. Dr.Ngu’s research interests are in data analytics and management, service computing, and the Internet of Things. She has published over 130 refereed technical papers in computer science, including papers in ICDE, WWW, ICSE, ICML, SIGIR, VLDB journal, TKDE and ACM Transactions on Computing for HealthCare.

Texas State’s applied computer science Ph.D. program is the first of its kind in Texas to combine the application of computer science knowledge and theory with the skills necessary for innovation and leadership and navigating multiple career paths.

The department is committed to excellence in education and research. With a wide range of courses and research opportunities offered by talented faculty, the department strives for an exceptional student experience. Three students were IBM Master the Mainframe Contest top winners. Six students won NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awards. One student received the CRA outstanding undergraduate researcher award.

The department enjoys a friendly atmosphere and is housed in a recently renovated building equipped with the latest technology. The campus is in the Texas Hill Country and only 30 minutes from Austin and 45 minutes from San Antonio, both of which have international airports and are home to some of the largest IT companies. The cost of living is very reasonable, and the climate is good year-round.

Admission criteria:  We admit students with a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related fields. GRE is required. For international students, TOFEL or IELTS  is required.  Refer to http://www.cs.txstate.edu/academic/phd for admission details.

Application procedure: Online submission of all application materials is required through the Graduate College’s application portal:
https://www.gradcollege.txstate.edu/programs/cs-phd.html

To assure full consideration, please complete your application by February 1, 2022, with a curriculum vitae, transcripts, a statement of research interests, three professional references including names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers, and your test scores.

Inquiry of this opportunity can be directed to Dr.Ngu (angu@txstate.edu).