UCF CS AI PhD positions (Research 1 University, CSRankings: #50; US news CS: ...

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant (GRA/GTA) positions are available for well-motivated students who want to pursue PhD degrees at the department of Computer Science at University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, Florida, USA (https://www.cs.ucf.edu/). The PhD advisor is Dr. Yanjie Fu (http://yanjiefu.com/).

Dr. Yanjie Fu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. degree from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2016, the B.E. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2008, and the M.E. degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. His research interests include data mining and big data analytics. He has research experience in industry research labs, such as Microsoft Research Asia and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He has published prolifically in refereed journals and conference proceedings, such as IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, ACM TKDD, ACM SIGKDD, AAAI, IJCAI, VLDB, WWW. He received US NSF CAREER Award (2021), ACM SIGSpatial Best Paper Runner-Up Award (2020), US NSF CRII Award (2018), ACM SIGKDD Best Student Paper Finalist (2018), University of Missouri System Research Board Award (2017), Microsoft Research Azure Research Award (2016), IEEE ICDM Best Paper Finalist (2014). He is committed to data science education. His graduated Ph.D. students have joined academia as tenure-track faculty members. His recent research focuses on spatial-temporal AI, graph learning, reinforcement learning, learning with unlabeled data, stream learning and distribution drift .

I am looking for self-motivated, creative and hard-working Ph.D. students. Please feel free to email me your CV if you are interested in my research. UCF is a Carnegie Research I (R1) university. UCF is ranked #50 overall for Computer Science in US according to CSRankings.org (https://csrankings.org/#/index?all&us), and is ranked #69 according to US News (https://www.usnews.com/best-grad ... 21775470034_control).


I am looking forward to welcoming you to join our academic family.