[Hiring] RL/Autonomous-Driving related RA positions at the University of Arizona

[Bo Liu]

[Hiring] RL/Autonomous-Driving related RA positions at the University of Arizona

Dr. Bo Liu, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, is now accepting 4-5 Ph.D. students for the Spring and Fall 2025 semesters. Dr. Liu's research group focuses on cutting-edge fields, including deep reinforcement learning, trustworthy AI, explainable/safe/risk-aware AI, and intelligent autonomous driving. Interested students are encouraged to apply. Admitted students will receive full scholarships.

Dr. Bo Liu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he studied under prominent AI experts Sridhar Mahadevan (AAAI Fellow) and Andrew Barto (IEEE/AAAS Fellow, recipient of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence). Dr. Liu is internationally recognized as the first scholar to introduce primal-dual optimization into reinforcement and temporal difference learning. His research interests include complexity analysis of reinforcement learning, trustworthy decision-making, and explainable AI. He has published over 40 papers in leading conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, UAI, AAAI, IJCAI) and journals (JAIR, IEEE-TNNLS). Dr. Liu’s work has received funding from the NSF, Amazon, Tencent, and ETRI. His accolades include the UAI 2015 Best Student Paper Award, the 2017 Tencent Faculty Research Award, the 2018 Amazon Research Award, and the AAMAS 2022 Best Visionary Paper Award. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and AAAI.

Interested applicants are encouraged to fill out this form: https://forms.gle/fVK4p4DrohVNykJ98
Email: bo...@arizona.edu
Bo's department webpage: https://ece.engineering.arizona.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/bo-liu
Personal webpage: https://ergodicmarkovian.github.io/main/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8MliTo4AAAAJ

Note:
* The University of Arizona offers two AI-related PhD programs. Those interested in applying to Professor Liu’s group should apply to the “Computer Science and Engineering” (CSE) program (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) rather than the “Computer Science” (CS) program (Department of Computer Science).
* For any questions, please contact Professor Liu (bo...@arizona.edu) or the department admissions secretary, Tami Whelan (twh...@arizona.edu).