26 Spring/ 26 Fall
Ruiyang Qin
Villanova University
Research: On-Device Learning, Efficient ML, In-Memory Computing, AI for EDA
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA, 1-2 Master with RA/TA
Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest
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 Sping / Fall
Dawei Zhou
Virginia Tech
Research: AI for Science (Physics, Material Science), LLM Generalization, LLM Evaluation, Multi-Modal Reasoning, Human-Centered AI
Openings: 5 PhDs with GRA/GTA and 1 Postdoc
Requirements: TOEFL (100+), GPA (3.5+)
Send: CV, Transcript, English Score, Research Interest
25 Fall/26 Spring/26 Fall
Jiaming Cui
Virginia Tech
Research: AI for healthcare, LLM, KG, scientific modeling
Openings: 2-3 PhD RA/TA
Requirements: TOEFL
26 Spring/26 Fall
Xuan Wang
Virginia Tech
Research: NLP, data mining, AI for sciences, AI for healthcare
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA
Requirements: TOEFL (100+), GPA (3.5+)
Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interests
25 Spring/Fall
Min Chen
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Research: Trustworthy AI, AI for Cybersecurity, Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Openings: 2-3 PhDs
25 Fall
Honghao Wei
Washington State University
Research: Reinforcement Learning, Optimization, RLHF
Openings: 1-2 PhDs RA/TA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest
26 Spring/26 Fall
Leon Li
Washington State University
Research: Hardware security, EDA, Testing, Hardware Reliability
Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
25 Fall
Bo Liu
Washington State University, Tri-cities
Research: Mathmatical modeling, Optimization, Control, Machine learning application in Smart Grid
Openings: 3 Ph.D. RA/TA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest
26 Spring/Fall
Mengyu Liu
Washington State University, Tri-cities
Research: Reinforcement Learning, formal methods, Control, LLM, safety/security
Openings: 1-2 PhDs RA
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest
26 Fall
Ashley Ye Gao
William and Mary
Research: LLM, NLP, Affective Computing, Health
No homepage listed
25 Fall
Haipeng Chen
William and Mary
Research: RL, GenAI (Diffusion models, LLMs); Health; Physics
Openings: multiple PhDs/interns
26 Fall
Qingyun Wang
William and Mary
Research: NLP, LLM, AI for Science, AI for Chemistry
Openings: 1 PhD with RA, multiple Interns
Send: CV, transcript, Research Interest, paper if applicable,
2025 spring /fall
wei sun
William and Mary
Research: wireless and mobile computing
Openings: 2 phd
25 Spring/Fall
Yanfu Zhang
William and Mary
Research: LLM, Data Mining, Computer vision, Trustworthy, Health
Openings: multiple PhDs/interns
Requirements: TOEFL no GRE
25 Spring / Fall
Weitao Yao
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Research: Distributed control, stability analysis, cyber-physical microgrid, power systems
Openings: 1 PhD
Requirements: TOEFL/IETLS, GRE
No homepage listed
26 Fall
Linghao Song
Yale University
Research: Accelerator, Domain-Specific Architecture and Systems, FPGAs
Openings: 1-2 PhDs
Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE
2025 Spring / Fall
Yucheng Xie
Yeshiva University
Research: Cybersecurity, Applied Machine Learning, Mobile Healthcare, Mobile Sensing
Openings: 1 PhD with RA
Requirements: TOEFL, no GRE requirement
25 Fall, 26 Fall
Siwei Tan
Zhejiang University
Research: Computer architecture, superconducting quantum hardware, quantum software
Openings: 1-2 PhD with RA
25/26 RA/Interns, 26 Fall PhD
Yongwei Wang
Zhejiang University
Research: AI for media, Generative modeling, Multimedia security
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.