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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
  1. Read their homepage and a recent paper first.
  2. Write a short, personal email: who you are, which of their work interests you, and what you would like to research.
  3. Attach your CV and transcript (and anything they ask for below).
  4. Do not send the same email to everyone. Follow up once after about a week.

379 supervisors

26 Fall

Jaemin Lee

NC State University

Research: Humanoids, Legged robots, Foundation Model, AI/ML based manipulation

Openings: Multiple PhDs

Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest, Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf12F7a69N05kfKWwhAMZGzGm1A9pB-n3qlT5zlWiW54e6txw/viewform

26 Fall

Peng Gao

NC State University

Research: Multi-Robot System, Human-Robot Teaming, Lifelong Learning and Adaptation

Openings: 1 PhD and multiple interns

Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest

25 Fall

Ruozhou Yu

NC State University

Research: Wireless Network, Quantum Network, Blockchain, Distributed/Federated Learning, Learn to Optimize, Security & Privacy, Edge Computing

Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE

Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest

2026 Fall

Xiaorui Liu

NC State University

Research: Large-scale ML, Robust ML, Graph Learning, Generative AI

Openings: Multiple PhDs / Interns

2025 Fall

Yuan Liu

NC State University

Research: Quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, quantum computing

Openings: 1 PhD

2026 Spring / Fall

Shivvrat Arya

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Research: Neurosymbolic AI, Probabilistic Methods, Explainable AI and Combinatorial Optimization

Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA/TA

26 Fall

Zongyi Li

New York University

Research: AI for Science, Neural Operator, Flow Matching, Partial differential equations, Weather and Climate

Openings: 2 PhD in CS/DS, 1 PhD in Math

26 Fall

Qiaoyu Tan

New York University - Shanghai Track

Research: LLM Reasoning, Multimodal LLM, Graph Machine Learning, RAG/GraphRAG

Openings: 2-3 PhD with RA, visiting students, interns

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, GRE is optional

Send: CV, transcript, Research Interest, paper if applicable,

26 Spring/Fall

Shaohu Zhang

North Carolina A&T State University

Research: LLM, Mobile System, Cybersecurity

Openings: 2-3 PhD with TA/RA

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, GRE is required, GPA above 3.5 without Master degree

25 Fall

Chenhan Xu

North Carolina State University

Research: Mobile Computing, wireless and wearable sensing, Human-Computer Interaction

Openings: 2 PhD with TA/RA

Requirements: TOEFL

No homepage listed
25 Spring / Fall

Kaixiong Zhou

North Carolina State University

Openings: 1-2 PhD

Requirements: TOEFL, GRE preferred

No homepage listed
26 Fall

Qiao (Georgie) Jin

North Carolina State University

Research: XR+AI for education, social computing, HCI, AR/VR/MR

Openings: 1 PhDs with RA/TA, 1 Postdocs, Interns

2026 Sping / Fall

Yuchen Liu

North Carolina State University

Research: Digital Twins, Computer/Wireless Networking, Generative AI, Cyber-Security and Privacy

Openings: 1-2 PhD

Requirements: TOEFL, no GRE requirement

25 Fall

Hongyang Zhang

Northeastern University

Research: ML, statistical learning, language models

Openings: 1-2 PhDs

No homepage listed
25 Fall

Tianshi Li

Northeastern University

Research: HCI, Human-Centered AI Privacy

Openings: 2 PhDs, interns

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE

2025 Spring/Fall

Yang Ye

Northeastern University

Research: Robotics, 3D vision, human-robot interaction

Openings: 1 PhD with RA + GTAs. Interns

Requirements: TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo, GRE not required

26 Fall

Ziming Zhao

Northeastern University

Research: Systems for DL/LLM (e.g., OS/Arch/Security); Systems and software security

Openings: Multiple PhDs/interns

26 Fall

Han Liu

Northwestern University

Research: AI/ML, Machine Learning, Foundation Models, Robotics, AI for Science

Openings: Multiple PhDs/interns

26 Fall

Kaize Ding

Northwestern University

Research: Reliable ML, Data-Efficient Leanring, AI for healthcare, environmental science

Openings: 1-3 PhDs, interns

26 Fall

Manling Li

Northwestern University

Research: AI/ML, Multimodal Foundation Models, NLP, CV, Robotics

Openings: Multiple PhDs/interns

No homepage listed
26 Fall

Ruohan Zhang

Northwestern University

Research: Robotics, robot learning, cognitive science, human-robot interaction, perception, art

Openings: Multiple PhDs/interns

Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest

No homepage listed
26 Spring/Fall

Yiping Lu

Northwestern University

Research: scaling law of AI, ML Thoery, Sequential Monte Carlo for LLM/Diffusion Model, Ai for Physics and Chemsitry

Openings: Multiple PhDs/interns

Send: CV, Transcript

26 Fall/26 Spring

Ping Zhang

Ohio State University

Research: Multimodal Large Language Models, Human-Computer Interaction, Medical Image Analysis

Openings: 4 PhDs with RA, and interns

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE

Send: CV, Transcript

immediately, or 26 Spring/Fall

Xia Ning

Ohio State University

Research: LLMs (multimodal foundation models, reasoning, planning, in-contex learning, agents), generative AI for science

Openings: multiple postdocs and staff (priority), as well as Phd students

26 Spring, 26 Fall

Ziyang Song

Ohio University

Research: AI4health, Trustworthy LLMs, biomedical LLM, statistical ML, NLP, time series

2026 Spring/Fall

Ying Zhang

Oklahoma State University

Research: LLM, GenAI, Edge Computing, Distirbuted Systems for Energy System Opeartion

Openings: 2 PhDs with RA, one Master's with RA/TA as of August 2025

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE, and the application fee can be waived.

Send: CV, Transcript

26 Spring/Fall

Jiannan Tian

Okland University

Research: High-performance computing (HPC), scientific computing, data compression, parallel computing, GPU, AI for science, HPC x AI, HPC x IoT

Openings: 1-2 PhD with RA, 1 PhD with TA

Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest

25 Fall/26 Spring

Annie Lee

Ontario Tech University / University of Toronto (Canada)

Research: NLP, LLM, ML, multilinguality

Openings: 1-2 PhDs

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE

Send: CV, Transcript

26 Spring/Summer/Fall

Li Yang

Ontario Tech University / Western University (Canada)

Research: AutoML, ML Optimization,Trustworthy AI, Cybersecurity, Online/Continual Learning, Adversarial Machine Learning, IoT, EV security, Intrusion/Anomaly Detection

Openings: 1-2 PhDs

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE

Send: CV, Transcript

2025 Spring / Fall

Huazheng Wang

Oregon State University

Research: Reinforcement Learning, Bandits, Information Retrieval, Agents

Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA

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.