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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

2025 Fall

Chenkai Weng

Arizona State University

Research: Cryptography, computer security and privacy

Openings: 2 PhDs with RA

Requirements: TOEFL/IETLS

26 Fall

Hua Wei

Arizona State University

Research: Reinforcement Learning, LLM Reasoning, Urban Data Mining

Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA, Interns

Requirements: TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo, no GRE

26 Spring, 26 Fall

Jeff Zhang

Arizona State University

Research: Computer Architecture; AI Hardware and Systems; ML for System; EDA

Openings: PhDs

25 Fall, 26 Spring, 26 Fall

Jia Zou

Arizona State University

Research: Database Systems for AI/ML (including LLM inferences) and Privacy

Openings: 1 Ph.D RA in 26 fall and Multiple Intern Poistions

2026 Spring/Fall

Jiaqi Gu

Arizona State University

Research: (1) Efficient AI, AI system, model compression; (2) Electronic design automation (EDA), ML for EDA; (3) Photonic computing and interconnect system; Hardware/algorithm Co-Design; AI for Physics;

Openings: 2 PhDs, interns

Requirements: TOEFL, no GRE requirement

Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest

2025 Fall

Qiaoning Zhang

Arizona State University

Research: Human-AI Collaboration, Human-Robot Interaction, and User Experience (UX) Design.

Openings: 1-2 PhDs with RA

25 Spring/Fall

Wanxin Jin

Arizona State University

Research: Robotics, robot learning, manipulation, human-robot interaction, control

Openings: 1PhD

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE if you have publications

26 Fall

Xiyang Hu

Arizona State University

Research: ML, LLM, Trustworthy, HCI

Openings: PhDs, Interns

26 Fall

Yixuan He

Arizona State University

Research: ML, Graph Neural Networks

Openings: PhD

Requirements: depends on the program (CS/Stats/Maths/DS/Applied Maths)

Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest

2026 Fall

Zhichao Cao

Arizona State University

Research: Data System with AI/ML optimizations and System for LLMs (offloading, caching, dedup)

Openings: 1 Ph.D. with RA, multiple remote interns

26 Spring/ Fall

Jiaqi Wang

Auburn University

Research: AI for healthcare, LLMs, Multimodal Learning, Multi-agent Systems

Openings: 1-2 PhD

Requirements: depends on the program

2025 Spring / Fall

Pan He

Auburn University

Research: Computer Vision, Deep Learning

Openings: 1 PhD

2026 Spring/Fall

Sanchuan Chen

Auburn University

Research: Software security, Machine Learning Security, Hardware Security, Cryptanalysis

Openings: 1-2 PhDs, interns

Requirements: TOEFL, no GRE requirement

Send: CV, Transcript

2026 Spring/Fall

Shuai Huang

Auburn University

Research: AI for healthcare, computer vision, GNN, biomedical imaging, MRI

Openings: 1 PhD with RA

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE requirements

2025 Fall/2026 Spring

Yuyan Bao

Augusta University

Research: Formal Verification, Programming Languages, Software Security

Openings: 1 PhD RA

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE requirements

Send: CV, Transcript

2026 Fall

Kai-Cheng Yang

Binghamton University

Research: AI for social impact, computational social science

Openings: 1-2 PhD RA/TA

2025 Spring/Fall

Jianshu Liu

Boise State University

Research: Distributed System, Cloud Computing, MLSys

Openings: 1 PhD with RA

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS

Send: CV, Transcript

2026 Fall

Jun Zhuang

Boise State University

Research: Trustworthy AI (robustness), Medical Imaging, Quantum ML

Openings: 1-2 PhD RA

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS, no GRE.

Send: CV, Transcript

2026 Fall

Yu Zhang

Boise State University

Research: Computer Vision, Robotics, Edge AI, Remote Sensing

Openings: Multiple PhDs RA

Requirements: TOEFL (80) or IELTS (6.5), no GRE.

26 Fall

Chang Xiao

Boston University

Research: HCI, Human-AI Interaction, XR

Openings: 2-3 PhD w/ RA, 0-1 Postdoc, Interns

25 Fall / 26 Fall

Xuezhou Zhang

Boston University

Research: Reinforcement Learning

Openings: 1-2 PhD with RA per year

26 Fall

Sriram Subramanian

Carleton University, Canada

Research: Reinforcement Learning, Multi-agent Systems, Game Theory, Generative AI, AI Safety

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2025 Sping / Fall

Jing Ma

Case Western Reserve University

Research: Trustworthy AI (causality, explanation, robustness), Causal ML, Graph learning, LLM, AI+X

Openings: 1 PhD, interns

Requirements: GRE, TOEFL

Sherry Wang

Chapman University

Research: Ethical Healthcare AI

Openings: Multiple interns

Send: CV

2026 Fall

Yunming Xiao

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Research: Computer systems, networks, and security

Openings: 1-2 PhD, RA, visiting student

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS

Send: CV, Transcript

2025 Spring/Fall

Zhongxiang Dai

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Openings: 2-3 PhD, RA, visiting student

Requirements: TOEFL or IELTS

Send: CV, Transcript

25 Fall/26 Spring

Xiangyu Zhao

City University of Hong Kong

Research: LLMs, Recommender System, IR, Trustworthy AI, Smart City, AI+Healthcare

Openings: Multiple PhDs (Fellowship+RA/TA), Postdocs

Requirements: IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL 79, no GRE, BS 985 + GPA 85/100

Send: CV, Transcript, Research Interest

25 Fall, 26 Spring /Fall

Feng Ye

Clemson University

Research: Statistical Deep Learning, Physics-informed Data Science, Spatio-temporal Modeling, Forecast-informed Decision Making

Openings: 1-2 PhD with RA

26 Spring/Fall

Ge Lv

Clemson University

Research: Wearable Robots, Assistive Robots, Exoskeletons and Prostheses, Gait Analysis, Biomechancis

Openings: 2 PhD with GRA assistantships

Requirements: TOEFL, no GRE

Send: CV, transcript (UG/Graduate), Publications (if any)

26 Spring, 26 Fall

Kunpeng Liu

Clemson University

Research: Reinforcement Learning, LLM Reasoning, LLM Fine-tuning

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.