Cybersecurity and Knowledge Computing Lab

Join Our Research Team

We are seeking highly motivated PhD students to join our research group at Tufts University starting in Spring 2026 or Fall 2026. Two positions are available:

  1. Hardware Architecture / VLSI / Hardware Security - Research will focus on novel accelerator design, hardware-software co-design, and secure computing. Background in silicon photonics is a plus.
  2. Trusted AI and AI/ML for Healthcare - Research will focus on advancing trusted and responsible AI including security and privacy, or machine learning for healthcare applications. Prior publication in top-tier conferences is a strong plus.

To apply, please visit this link. Feel free to reach out to me (yingjie.lao@tufts.edu) if you are interested!

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Our Research in Action

Latest News

  • [02/2023] One paper is accepted by 60th Design Automation Conference (DAC).
  • [11/2022] One paper is accepted by AAAI 2023.
  • [10/2022] Our project 'Machine Learning Based Insurance Coverage Prediction' is funded by Kerecis.
  • [09/2022] Weihang successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Dr. Tan!
  • [09/2022] One paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2022.
  • [09/2022] One paper is accepted by Scientific Reports.
  • [08/2022] Jianchi successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Dr. Sun!
  • [08/2022] One paper is accepted by 2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS).
  • [07/2022] One paper is accepted by 35th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFTS).
  • [06/2022] One paper is accepted by 29th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
  • [05/2022] One paper is accepted by 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).
  • [05/2022] Yingjie is invited to give a talk at AI Time Young Scientist Series.
  • [03/2022] One paper is accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J).
  • [03/2022] One paper is accepted by 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR).
  • [03/2022] One paper is accepted by CLEO 2022.
  • [02/2022] I have been elevated to Senior Member of IEEE.
  • [01/2022] One paper is accepted by International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2022.
  • [12/2021] Weihang received the Pramod Subramanyan Presentation Award (Best PhD Presentation Award) at AsianHOST 2021. Congratulations, Weihang!
  • [12/2021] Three papers are accepted by Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22).
  • [12/2021] Our research is funded by GVSC through VIPR-GS Center to work on cybersecurity.