Ph.D. opening in Cyber Security @Washington University in St. Louis

Zhangning_wustlUID: 3908098

Professor Ning Zhang is looking for self-motivated students who are interested in pursuing Ph.D. degree with a focus on computer security in Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA, starting in Fall 2019. Full financial support (RA) will be provided to students admitted into the Ph.D. program.  

Prospective students are expected to have solid backgrounds in computer science and engineering. The focused areas of research of the lab would be trustworthy system, vulnerability discovery, and cyber-physical system security. Prior experience in computer architecture, programming language, operating system, embedded system and cryptography is preferred, but not required.

About Professor Zhang:
Dr. Ning Zhang joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in Fall 2018. Previously he had been a principal cyber engineer/researcher and technical lead in the industry from 2007 to 2018. Ning's research focus is system security, which lies at the intersection of security, embedded system, computer architecture, software and cyber-physical system.

For more details please refer to Prof. Zhang’s web page:
ningzhang.info
engineering.wustl.edu/Profiles/Pages/Ning-Zhang.aspx

About Washington University in St. Louis (Wikipedia)
Washington University in St. Louis (also referred to as WashU, or WUSTL) is a private research university located in the St. Louis metropolitan area and elsewhere in Missouri. As of 2017, 24 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Washington University. Washington University's undergraduate program is ranked 18th by U.S. News & World Report in 2018 and 11th by the Wall Street Journal in their 2018 rankings. The university is ranked 20th in the world in 2017 by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Our rankings (2018):
General USNews Ranking: 18
Computer Science USNews Ranking: 49
Computer Engineering USNews Ranking: 31

If interested, please send your CV and other supporting documents to zhang.ning@wustl.edu

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