Ph.D. Research Opportunities
The following research opportunities are available for prospective Ph.D. students. To apply for one of these positions please visit the Ph.D. in Computing and Information Sciences program page or, for Electrical Engineering positions, visit the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering program page. Learn more about pursuing your Ph.D. at RIT, on our Ph.D. Experience page.
| Faculty Name | Department | Research Areas | Number of Available Ph.D. Student Positions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ali Baheri | Mechanical Engineering | Reinforcement Learning, Safe Learning, Geoemtric Security | 1-2 | |
| Lingwei Chen |
Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity with AI/ML (data-driven methods for security applications), AI security (security of discriminative and generative AI), and resilient ML under challenging conditions and uncertainty (e.g., data imbalance, limited data, small models, training-free, multi-modal, and heterophilic structures) | 1 | |
| Chongzhou Fang | Computer Engineering | System Security | 1-2 | |
| Yidan Hu | Cybersecurity | Data Privacy, Network and Distributed System Security, Privacy-preserving Machine Learning | 1 | |
| Andy Meneely, Rajendra Raj, and Sumita Mishra | AI, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering | Cybersecurity and AI | 1 | |
| Ashique KhudaBukhsh | Software Engineering | Verifiable Social Science using LLMs and AI Safety | 2 | |
| Yinxi Liu | Cybersecurity | Software and Web Security; AI/Agent Security; Program Analysis, Testing, and Security Measurement | 1 | |
| Sunwoong "Sunny" Kim | Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering | System Security | 1 | |
| Leon Reznik | Computer Science | Federated Learning, Machine Learning, Security and Privacy, Machine Learning in Research Experiments Design and Prediction | 1 | |
| Alireza Vahid | Electrical Engineering | Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC); SATCOM security | 1 | |
| Matthew Wright | Cybersecurity | Agentic AI and LLMs for Media Forensics Applications | 1 | |
| Ersin Uzun | Cybersecurity |
Applications of AI in Security, Systems Security, Usable Security/Privacy, Privacy Preserving Technologies |
1 | |
| Xueling Zhang | Software Engineering | Software Privacy | 1 |