[jobs] Ph.D./Master/Intern@UIC CS Department - 2022 Fall/2023 Spring/Fall

[lche...@asu.edu]

Fully funded Ph.D. positions are available in Dr. Lu Cheng's lab, in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The main research direction will be socially responsible AI (fairness, interpretability/explainability, privacy, robustness, domain generalization), causal machine learning, and social media mining. Highly motivated master's students/undergraduate/interns are also very welcome to work with me.

About myself

Dr. Lu Cheng received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2022 advised by Dr. Huan Liu, M.Eng. degree in Industrial Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and B.Eng. degree in Industrial Engineering at Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST). Her research interests are broadly in data mining and machine learning, with a particular focus on socially responsible AI, social computing, causal machine learning, and AI for social good. Lu is the web chair of WSDM'22 and a senior program committee member of AAAI'22. She was the recipient of the 2021 ASU Engineering Dean's Dissertation Award, 2020 ASU Graduate Outstanding Research Award, 2021 and 2022 ASU CIDSE Doctoral Fellowship, 2022 SDM Best Poster Award, 2019 ASU Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship, IBM Ph.D. Social Good Fellowship, Visa Research Scholarship, and various Student Travel Awards and Scholarships. More information can be found at http://www.public.asu.edu/ lcheng35/.

Requirement:

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related fields.
• Experience in at least one major programming language. Capabilities and willingness to learn new programming languages.
• Enthusiasm for doing research.
• Students who are interested in joining my lab as Ph.D. students in Fall 2022 and have not yet applied for UIC, need to be US-based (not applied to other semesters).

Application Process:
Please send your CV and transcript to lucheng...@gmail.com.