Prof. Z. Gu is an assistant professor in the EECS Department, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA. He is looking for Ph.D. students to work in the inter-disciplinary field of real-time embedded systems, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT), with applications in smart mobility (mobile robots, self-driving cars, UAVs, etc.). This field is highly popular in industry with excellent career prospects both in both the US and China. The student will be fully-funded by Research or Teaching Assistantship.
Research topics include:
1. High-performance embedded computing on heterogeneous hardware platforms that include a mixture of multicore CPU, GPU, DSP, FPGA, etc.
2. Application of control theory and machine learning to embedded systems design, including PID Control, Model-Predictive Control, Optimal Control (LQR, LQG), Deep Reinforcement Learning, etc.
3. Implementation of machine learning/deep learning algorithms on embedded and resource-constrained IoT systems.
Required background
1) Bachelor or Master Degree in with background in CS/EE/control/automation.
2) Knowledge of control theory/embedded systems/machine learning is a plus, but not essential.
University of Missouri is a R1 research-intensive university whose engineering graduate program is ranked 88 in the US by US News magazine. It is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), which includes 62 top research universities in North America.