【2016春季招生】PhD student positions available EECS@UTK

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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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[align="left"]Dr. Wei Gao from the Department of Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) isseeking outstanding candidates to fill multiple PhD student positions startingfrom the Spring or Fall 2016 semester. Recruited PhD students will receive fullfinancial support.[/align]
[align="left"]Dr. Wei Gao is doing cutting-edge research in the design,analysis, and implementation of emerging wireless networking and mobilecomputing systems. More specifically, his research aims to develop efficientwireless network protocols, mobile software systems and hardware components forvarious computing platforms, ranging from smartphones and wearable devices, tosmart vehicles, smart home appliances, and implantable medical devices. He haspublished more than 40 papers at many top-tier venues such as ACM MobiHoc, IEEEINFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEETransactions on Mobile Computing, etc. His work on social-aware multicast isone of the most influential research in the area of mobile opportunisticnetworks and has been cited more than 400 times in the past 3 years. [/align]
[align="left"]Applicants of all relevant majors including ComputerScience, Electrical Engineering, Communication Engineering, etc, are encouragedto apply. Applicants with hands-on system programming skills (e.g., Androidsystem and Linux kernel programming), wireless communication system background,or RF circuit design experiences, will be given prioritized consideration.Interested applicants should send their CVs and list of publications (if any)to Dr. Wei Gao at 1point3acres.com. Note thatUTK has a graduate admission deadline of June 15 for the Spring 2016 term andFebruary 1 for the Fall 2016 term.[/align]
[align="left"]Why pursuing PhD at EECS@UTK? The PhD program of ComputerScience at UTK is placed in the top 15% among all the US public universitiesaccording to the recently released National Research Council (NRC) ranking. TheEECS Department is also featured by its physical proximity and closecollaboration with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which is the majorresearch facility of the US Department of Energy and owns the strongestsupercomputer in the world. This connection brings a lot of research collaborationopportunities to UTK faculty and students. Students will have the chance to dosummer internships at various ORNL groups, and will have the priority to beconsidered for US government jobs after graduation. The city of Knoxville isonly 30-minutes driving away from the famous Great Smoky Mountain NationalPark, and has been evaluated by the Forbes magazine as the second happiest cityto work in the United States.[/align]
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