Grad Student Recruitment at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

About the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Founded in 1851, the University of Minnesota has five campuses, with the flagship campus located in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, US. The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is known as a Public Ivy League university with 26 Nobel Prize winners. Its 17 colleges offer more than 300 majors, making it one of the most comprehensive universities in the United States.

The College of Science and Engineering was established in 1935 and has 13 departments. Among them, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has strong academic strength. In 2020, Guide2Research ranked the department as 26th in the United States and 40th in the world.

About the advisor

Chang Ge received his Ph.D from the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in June 2022. He is joining the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities as an Assistant Professor in the Fall semester of 2022. He is broadly interested in data management, with a recent focus on new algorithms and systems for enabling large-scale data analysis in the presence of private and dirty data. In addition to publications at SIGMOD, VLDB and ICDE, his research has been adopted into the products and services by Apple, Microsoft, IBM and SAP.

Academic homepage: http://umn.edu/~cge 

Open positions

The lab recruits outstanding students all year round. From now until the end of 2023, we have several openings for fully funded PhD students, master students, postdoctoral fellows, research assistants and visiting scholars.

Qualifications 

We expect the candidates to have:

1.       Computer science background, with good math and programming skills. Understanding any of database, data privacy, data security and machine learning is a great plus but not mandatory;

2.       Strong self-motivation to push progress and a clear mindset to resist setbacks;

3.       Patience to read papers/code and to experiment.

How to apply

If you are interested, please send the following information to cge AT umn.edu, with a subject line [Position]_Application_[YourName]:

1.       Application materials, including but not limited to short paragraph to introduce yourself, resume, transcript and research experience;

2.       Start time;

3.       Your expectations and plans after graduation;