PhD Openings in CS at Georgia State University

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Two openings with full financial support are available for Ph.D. students starting Fall 2016


or Spring 2017. Each PhD student will receive $19,000 stipend per year plus full tuition


waiver. Our lab is conducting exciting cutting-edge research in big data analytics, data


mining, databases, data visualization, machine learning, and bioinformatics. Degrees from


CS, EE, Automation, Math, and other related areas are encouraged to apply. Please email


Prof. Yubao Wu ( yubao.wu@case.edu ) with your resume if interested. More information


regarding the lab and research can be found at the website ( robwu.net ).


Georgia State University ( GSU ) is experiencing a major expansion. In the CS department,


there are sixteen tenure-track faculty members right now. The department will recruit


about seven new faculty members in recent years. The department’s annual research


budget exceeds two million dollars. Six faculty members have won the prestigious NSF


CAREER Awards. GSU is close to Georgia Institute of Technology. There are many great


opportunities for us to collaborate with the researchers at Georgia Tech. GSU is located


in Downtown Atlanta. Atlanta is the ninth largest metropolitan area in the United States.


Students at GSU have a good balance between school and personal life. Atlanta is in the


southeast of America and has pleasant climate.


Big data related position is the hottest job in America. High tech companies, such as


Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon, recruit lots of big-data related employees. In


academia, researchers from diverse disciplines including medicine, biology, business,


biostatistics, and epidemiology need to find collaborators from Computer Science to help


them process and analyze large volume data. Thisis the reason why many universities are


recruiting big data related faculty members. Data Science is a newly emerging discipline.


Where there is data, there is a need for data scientists.