2025 Spring/Fall
Zhun Deng
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research: machine learning, learning theory, AI ethics
Openings: 1 PhD RA
Requirements: TOEFL, GRE Preferred
No homepage listed
PhD, masters and internships
Supervisors taking students
Professors who have said they are taking PhD, masters or intern students. Search by research area or university, then contact them through their homepage.
How to email a supervisor
- Read their homepage and a recent paper first.
- Write a short, personal email: who you are, which of their work interests you, and what you would like to research.
- Attach your CV and transcript (and anything they ask for below).
- Do not send the same email to everyone. Follow up once after about a week.
379 supervisors
2026 Fall
Ziping Xu
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research: Reinforcement Learning, Mobile Health, Machine Learning Theory
Openings: 1-2 PhDs + Interns
Requirements: TOEFL, no GRE requirement
Send: CV, Transcript
25 Fall/26 Spring/26 Fall
Guanchu Wang
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research: Trustworthy AI (for LLM), Explainable AI (for LLM), LLM safety, LLM reasoning
Openings: 2 PhDs with RA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS
Send: CV, Transcript, paper/demo if applicable
25Fall/26Spring
Jinzhen Wang
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research: High-performance Computing, Data reduction and compression, AI+System
Openings: 1 - 2 PhDs with RA
Requirements: TOEFL/IELTS, GRE needed but no min score
26 Fall/26 Spring
Matin Yarmand
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research: HCI, Educational Technology, Healthcare, Applied AI
Openings: 2 PhDs
Send: CV, Research Interest
25 Spring/Fall
Kewei Sha
University of North Texas
Research: Edge Computing，Edge AI
Openings: 1-2 PhD with RA/TA
No homepage listed
2026 Spring/Fall
Tao Hou
University of North Texas
Research: Cybersecurity, Trustworthy AI
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA
Send: CV, Transcript, etc.
2026 Spring/Fall
Tao Wang
University of North Texas
Research: Trustworthy AI, Cybersecurity, Next-Generation Network, Cyber-Physical System
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA
Send: CV, Transcript, etc.
26 Spring/Fall
Meng Jiang
University of Notre Dame
Research: AI for Material Science, Reasoning, Multimodality | AI Ethics, Unlearning
Openings: 2 PhDs + 1 postdoc in Spring 26, 2 PhDs in Fall 26
26 Fall
Toby Li
University of Notre Dame
Research: HCI, Human-AI Interaction, LLM Agents, AI Security and Privacy
26 Fall
Yanfang Ye
University of Notre Dame
Research: LLM, AI4Science
Openings: 1 PhD with RA
Requirements: TOEFL
Send: CV, Transcript, etc.
2025 Spring/Fall
Jie Cao
University of Oklahoma
Research: Multi-party/Multi-modal Dialogue, NLP, AI for Education/Healthcare, Deep Structured Prediction
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE.
25 Fall
Tao Hou
University of Oregon
Research: Topological data analysis, Topological machine learning, Computational topology, Theory
Openings: 1-2 PhDs RA/TA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
25 Spring/26 Fall
Yu Wang
University of Oregon
Research: Neural-Symbolic AI, Agentic Social Network, Trustworthy AI, Information Retrieval, Cybersecurity
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
Send: CV, Transcript
26 Fall
Jing Huang
University of Pennsylvania
Research: Medical AI
Openings: 2 PhDs with RA
Requirements: TOEFL
25 Spring/Fall
Xiaowei Jia
University of Pittsburgh
Research: Data Mining, Knowledge-guided Machine Learning, AI for Science, Spatio-temporal Data Mining
Openings: Multiple PhDs
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
No homepage listed
26 Anytime
Ruihong Qiu
University of Queensland, Australia
Research: Graphs, LLMs, RecSys
Openings: 1-2 PhDs and Interns
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
2025 Spring/Fall
Jian Kang
University of Rochester
Research: AI for Material Science and Public Health; Algorithmic Fairness; Graph Learning; Trustworthy ML
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA
Requirements: TOEFL/IELTS, no GRE requirements
Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest
26 Spring/Fall
Santosh Pandey
University of South Florida
Research: Machine Learning for Systems, High Performance Computing, Computer Architecture
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
Send: CV, Transcript, Resaerch Interest (Flyer: https://usf.box.com/s/1lvdgjnfqh06weidvzjfqkfpt5et06hs)
Fall 25/Spring/Fall '26
Utkarsh Ojha
University of South Florida
Research: Generative models for images; Fake image detection; Difference between real and AI generated content
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
26 Spring/Fall
Xiaomin Lin
University of South Florida
Research: AI for Good, Robotics for good, Edge VLM, LLM
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest
Homepage & contact ↗(see homepage)
25 Fall/26 Spring
Yi Sheng
University of South Florida
Research: AI for science, AI system
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
2025 Sping / Fall
Yili Ren
University of South Florida
Research: Mobile Computing, Wireless Sensing, Cybersecurity
Openings: 2 PhDs RAs/TAs
Requirements: TOEFL, no GRE requirement
2026Fall
Jieyu Zhao
University of Southern California
Research: LLM, RL, Efficiency, Agents
Openings: 1-2 PhDs w/ RA/TA
2025 Fall/2026 Fall
Mengyuan Li
University of Southern California
Research: System Security, Cloud Security, Trusted Execution Environment, GPU security, Confidential Computing
Openings: 2 PhD. RA, interns
Fall 2026
Paria Rashidinejad
University of Southern California
Research: LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, Reasoning, Model Steering, Interpretability, Theoretical Foundations of AI, AI Safety
Openings: PhDs
Requirements: TOEFL
Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest, Prior publications if available
Homepage & contact ↗Email: (see homepage)
26 Fall
Ruishan Liu
University of Southern California
Research: AI for health, Biomedical AI
Openings: 1 PhD, Research Interns
25 Fall
Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
University of Southern California
Research: Privacy-preserving ML, Federated Learning, Game theory and Incentives (Data Economics)
Openings: 1-2 PhD with RA
Requirements: TOEFL/IELTS, GRE see here
26 Fall
Yue Wang
University of Southern California
Research: Robotics, 3D computer vision, AI
Openings: PhDs, RAs, and potential postdocs
26 Fall
Yue Zhao
University of Southern California
Research: Trustworthy AI, AI Robustness, AI for Social Science, ML Systems
Openings: We mostly look for interns; Ph.D. is always case by case
This list comes from a community-maintained sheet of openings. Openings change, so check each supervisor’s homepage before you write. Email addresses are not shown here; use the contact details on their homepage.