Arizona State Univ. TWO RA Positions

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Dr. Paulo Shakarian, who recently accepted an assist. professor position at ASU are looking for two PhD students. Send your resume directly to Dr. Paulo Shakarian <pshak02@live.com> if you are interested. Or you can write to me <xchen120@asu.edu> if you have any questions/concerns

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Please read a breif intro of Dr. Shankarian

Hello, I'm Paulo Shakarian, and I am relocating from my position at West Point, NY to ASU this summer.  I am eagerly looking for 2x RA's/Ph.D. students to fund.  These students would be working on the creation and application of new artificial intelligence techniques to cyber-security and social network analysis respectively.  I would also be willing to take on unfunded students with the possibility of funding in the future (at West Point I was able to bring in $493K of research dollars).

With regard to cyber-security, I am looking at problems of cyber-attribution and determination of adversarial intent (see video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btvwhY-eMEw for an idea of the kind of thing I'm thinking about).  Recently, I published a book about Cyber-Warfare and am looking to apply artificial intelligence techniques to address some of the major challenges in this exciting new area.

The social network analysis work will be focused on social network diffusion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl_88YoY0PY).  We want to move these models out of the realm of the theoretical and into the practical through my partnerships with law enforcement (http://www.popsci.com/article/sc ... ocial-network-crime).  I have been working with the Chicago Police for over a year and they currently using my GANG social network software platform to analyze criminal street gangs.  This gives us an exciting platform to build upon and gather results from the real world.
I am looking for students who are strong in mathematics and computer programming, preferably in Python and C++.  Further, students must possess the ability to effectively communicate in English - both in writing and orally.  I expect my students to work extremely hard - and hold them to that expectation.  That said, students I have advised in the past at West Point have been extremely successful.  In 2014 I had 2x NSF Graduate Research Fellowship winners and a third runner-up.  I had a student team named as finalists in the DARPA Innovation Challenge.  Some of our work was included as the "Best of 2013" by MIT Technology Review and also in Popular Science.  My students have consistently had papers accepted into major conferences including KDD, AAMAS, ASONAM, and others.  Please see http://shakarian.net/paulo for more about my work.