July 7, 2021

RA announcement for project on security in autonomous systems

Position Type: Graduate Student
Priority: No
RA position announcement for security in autonomous systems: Prof. Saurabh Bagchi
 
We are looking for Graduate Research Assistants on a 5-year project from the Army Research Lab (ARL) on secure distributed protocols for autonomous systems. The project involves a total of 5 faculty members, spread across Purdue and Princeton. The project is open to a PhD student in ECE or CS, in the 1st or 2nd year of his/her study. We may also hire an exceptional Masters (thesis) student in ECE or CS in the student’s 1st semester. The positions will be filled on a rolling basis. 
 
Characteristics of applicants: Some expertise in distributed system security, fundamental machine learning building blocks. Good system building skills and experience with any ML framework (PyTorch, MXNet, TensorFlow, etc.).
 
Project team: The project Principal Investigator (PI) is Prof. Saurabh Bagchi and co-PIs are Profs. David Inouye, Mung Chiang, Somali Chaterji, and Prateek Mittal (Princeton). When fully staffed, the project team will have 5 Graduate Researchers and 1 Research Scientist along with several undergraduate research assistants to work closely with the graduate researchers.  
 
Citizenship requirement: None
 
Overview Presentation
 
 
 
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Saurabh Bagchi
Purdue University
Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Department of Computer Science (by courtesy)
Director, CRISP (Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, and Processes)
Phones: 765-494-1741 (O) 765-427-5708 (C)