Broader picture:Our institution focuses heavily on research investment. According to NSF HERD rankings which rank colleges and disciplines according to their NSF research expenditures:– PSU College of Engineering is 4th in the country in 2022 (up from 5)– CS is 8th in the country in 2022 (CS has been in the top 10 every year since 2012 and has been 8th or better of the last 8 years)Our group:Our group is highly active in academic research and training of next-generation professors and research scientists. In support of this goal, we are always looking for talented and motivated young scholars to join our group. At a high level, our work aims at combining classic theory and techniques with timely applications and unique challenges/opportunities therein. Our philosophy is: “come from practice, tackle in theory world, and then return to practice”. It is our belief that this approach can bring out the real problem hidden in application artifacts and allow us to solve fundamental challenges with long-term impacts.Generally speaking, we work at the intersection of networking and learning. We are currently investigating data compression/summarization for edge-based machine learning (coreset, projection, etc.), communication-efficient decentralized learning (e.g., topology design for decentralized SGD), topology inference based on network tomography in next-generation networks (e.g., NFV, network slicing), security of NextG networks (e.g., situational awareness in 5G, security under network slicing), and intelligent attack models in networks (e.g., DGoS attack under tomography-based network monitoring, intelligent cache pollution attack based on adversarial cache inference). If you are interested, you can email me with your CV, updated transcript, and related supporting documents (e.g., sample publications), AND apply to our PhD program while indicating Prof. Ting He as your advisor of interest. I am also open to work with motivated MS students interested in our ongoing projects.Note for students seeking summer internship:We generally do not host summer interns from abroad, regardless of whether financial support is needed, due to visa requirements. Because of the large amount of queries on this topic, I will not be able to reply one by one.