Dr. Rahman is seeking a smart, self-motivated, hardworking Ph.D. student. The student should be comfortable with programming, algorithms, and logic. Added qualities include scholarly publications, preferably in cybersecurity, IoT/CPS, and/or artificial intelligence.

* An elaborated list of criteria for a potential Ph.D. student is as follows:

• Smart, self-motivated, and TRULY hardworking
• Comfortable with programming, algorithms, and logic
• Good academic ranking in undergraduate/MS
• Research background to some extent
• GRE and TOEFL/IELTS scores satisfy the University/Department’s minimum requirements
• Preferred qualities include:
  • Research background in Cybersecurity, IoT/CPS, or adversarial machine learning
  • Scholarly publications
  • GRE scores: Quantitative > 162, Verbal > 145, and Writing >= 3.5,
  • TOEFL >= 95, IELTS >= 7

** The fulfillment of the requirements that make a Ph.D. student ready for graduation, i.e., the successful dissertation defense:

• Success in defining and solving three related research problems (on the dissertation topic)
• Two top-tier conference publications, plus success in publishing multiple papers in other reputed conferences
• One publication in a prestigious journal and multiple under revision/submission
• Elegant in technical writing
• The ability to critically reviewing papers