I am looking for students who are interested in pursuing Data Science and Machine Learning research, especially Trustworthy Machine Learning (including explainability, fairness, robustness, etc). Recently, I’m particularly interested about the intersection of trustworthy machine learning and large language models (LLMs), and check our recent publications here.

Ph.D. Students: Students from Computer Science/Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics or other related disciplines are strongly encouraged to apply! Students from other disciplines, but showing strong interests, creativity and learning initiatives, are also welcome to apply! If you are interested in the positions, please feel free to contact me at dumengnan@gmail.com. Here are some suggestions in preparing the email:

• Please use Subject Line as: $TermYouApply Prospective Students $YourName

• Please highlight your publications (if applicable), GPA/ranking, TOEFL and GRE scores, and anything important

• Attach your CV

• I will carefully read every email, but please understand that I cannot afford to reply all of them

For Ph.D. applicants, please also apply to the DS Ph.D. program at https://ds.njit.edu/phd-data-science.

Interns: I have positions for remote and in-person interns and visiting students. My past interns have secured first-author publications in top-tier conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, and COLING. Please feel free to contact me at dumengnan@gmail.com with the title “Prospective Intern/Visiting Student - YourName” if you are interested. Thanks!