<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">The Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) at the George Mason University is seeking multiple PhD students who will work as GRAs in the field of </span><span class="gmail-m_4292101944335953973gmail-m_-1196972350515591974gmail-m_-3964243678446012126gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">deep</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify"> </span><span class="gmail-m_4292101944335953973gmail-m_-1196972350515591974gmail-m_-3964243678446012126gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">learning</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">, </span><span class="gmail-m_4292101944335953973gmail-m_-1196972350515591974gmail-m_-3964243678446012126gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">machine</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify"> </span><span class="gmail-m_4292101944335953973gmail-m_-1196972350515591974gmail-m_-3964243678446012126gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">learning</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">, </span><span class="gmail-m_4292101944335953973gmail-m_-1196972350515591974gmail-m_-3964243678446012126gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">constrained</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify"> </span><span class="gmail-m_4292101944335953973gmail-m_-1196972350515591974gmail-m_-3964243678446012126gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">optimization</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">, and their applications to cybersecurity. Please refer to our recent publications listed below and </span><span class="gmail-m_4292101944335953973gmail-m_-1196972350515591974gmail-m_-3964243678446012126gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">GRA</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify"> students will be working for similar topics, including but not limited to i) enhancing generative models such as generative adversarial networks, ii) enhancing knowledge graph embedding for scalability and accuracy, iii) solving </span><span class="gmail-m_4292101944335953973gmail-m_-1196972350515591974gmail-m_-3964243678446012126gmail-il" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify">optimization</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify"> problems in cybersecurity and social networks (e.g., optimally allocating security analysts against security alarms, finding a set of social sensors to detect outbreaks in social media, etc.). They will also conduct many practical research projects for cybersecurity applications, such as fake data synthesis.  Below is a list of recent publications on these topics.</span><br></div><div><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Generative adversarial networks and their application to data privacy:</span></p><br><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Noseong Park, Mahmoud Mohammadi, Kshitij Gorde, Sushil Jajodia, "</span><a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1NlDilNdGJXekNkmX5w4q_zJa5N3M6ekGszW_FGf-xbG0M-ZA8Xlpcq4fjnQCtUwaQceYhyOmkE8Y8SVwqj1LfK2ZAu7Z_IUMFBtmWvzA8YXx_Ey-R9jCK66LMyty2GlWc2yVFRTO8XxPBEMekFzZerrqPg9yLteIJeHkjPiPpQIwq8b3MHY53YS9H1P_Xwb8IkEHv1emHr_pItNn9-JLDbqyVWLjQOMsF6FmLlfNVcqUjJppyLcerTRJ6Rb_lmSzxiCHfddh_R_o7jVDtBkauq38LP11ZRlhu2HocgFVFnRL2mzEv4lTVCUvmn2HJpV-Arz3mPXfzm_4m1fS5d9Y_wH_PMD6a8r8KqaB_KIMMDQZogs0eDjGvovCTY_V6qgAZYIoCtJQCzwVIFiaoFA5Bfdd-MR8aBLgbTLImT9UdekWp66DRB5jllLDqQ0fnXhMSzHfzXlF6MvkOWi2P147nQ/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fh3tgggwo3s7jjn7%2Fvldb2018.pdf%3Fdl%3D0" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Data Synthesis based on Generative Adversarial Networks</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">," the 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2018</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">David K. Park, Seungjoo Yoo, Hyojin Bahng, Jaegul Choo, Noseong Park, "</span><a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/15OnYvOi3OFX7L0S1L9LZrM3pGjSP_77C8PPdtQ57opVU8CzTZRe6ArUUsBZsqGcyIywVRbbEQxAx1G2tBiRI-edRrxQaGU7LXnMv3_ts8k-2CxIt5Y57BiKO667wFAaTcrs3_HpgFMOR8CxpEifHPLKznhV1lM0LRfeYZMwdVaTo6WomQFu9LYz8PyYlwzBBE34M6pavXCf3SvtDuw8xyaZ6KRbhwQHcDEMXoeSRyjAzewZvaqg1J3e8C7BTKM2UGOk2w8JlgNR_3TFkX5mrN8SUXhqht0Za4JXIKRDngFGQD3bxEjwVEgb5kC25MrxueWLGd6UlbjMH7LM1MozD7ibwH0wg_VTt0XTWG0MdwPRskZ7iQWYSI2ljMxc38BYLvKuQTHAESpScj47No5uI6pCncIhONLDwwScp7vnUqjViKDOZb-GkW8E7d8wRKIkpNwAKlQqDRyVQhe2Z4e5hDA/https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fpdf%2F1805.02481.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">MEGAN: Mixture of Experts of Generative Adversarial Networks for Image Generation for Multimodal Image Generation</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">," the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence  (IJCAI), 2018</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Noseong Park, Ankesh Anand, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Kookjin Lee, Jaegul Choo, David K. Park, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Hongkyu Park, and Youngmin Kim, "</span><a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1BoZMK9GrfHOekK2VKALzXjysHXrSlyBrliVFjqP4beJu6cG1sVBBVcCsBUcnIjriKS9XbWhpIMm3bplkHI7ydMm2ZIUtQrBj-XFaAOxUuw9UaredT8TiUZeuwKrlpWkjEQr-3ZlIy6Qd6ChycJYbDSB7TUYQJWtNYPawOSbOiNKTTjXLjLbRNrRu3TXmurXV8eKm35JMo_T7_REj-M20N8_Q0a3hjgL2NU8gu04FMN38IKcditNqDR-Rn_pXUqrHkR_GW2hh-etjW6vPfl0Bf44BVIYbfuGlJlXPEDMqW8m69YP4BpxiMWrwWTgkoSU9XatnfyiVWdDmNNkIZz8jEtU-I2sX5dbz6-7yWYCMx9eG7Yl-d1-yettQQveZBECqDe22Q70j4AvALgX_4mMOdSiXyEUsfZmRn37gvjbLlzIMDrzudyO9bXEl3spA8IIQmbOju5QcC76iH-a_sEPSEw/https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fpdf%2F1707.08273.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">MMGAN: Manifold Matching Generative Adversarial Network for Generating Images</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">," the 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2018</span></p></li></ol><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Knowledge graph query processing and embedding:</span></p><br><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hyunjoong Kang, Sanghyun Hong, Kookjin Lee, Noseong Park and Soonhyun Kwon, "</span><a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1P8uPamdj1vavmpm4Tc3q_Em0KEJL6eLzd0_Ek5Sa7sT-CoQs6b3rUbwFmxDCT-pERVwgPzs1lP3WD2BC0X-w8tRc33IUSIZQG9Qj7gt2ZzjLh7CTinWMI07wNV6Lkne8BLbVP5WJOmXgfNmnzRpg3wLAwGIddoWn9cVsriY_K0K3t11k906y3uBNtMM0XUPUh44I1R1SerUonck9zQUFxQArr4mmhdmdzJCB8TyfMmiBPf9mbVhbNEaJX4aBy5vJIiXQtysy0l3-IPRBkQf_daZKykGKnZX7wgFtngMv-BMJTkJLO9ZB5b06phi2Cu54PpxacqRvhO2EnYgJwvd3eXvIjPnAh_8T016aFxAomt6IaXBuiaj-ooUcBZecNUa1wChCpw3ah9ehj2JnwEr-c1kJC87ZZdrhlGhKRLe_FG9nfixrABg_oqWexA19MCXZkZiXxSqo9wyjcWHN6D8NmQ/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fnhp9htnd81bnrrf%2Ficws2018_short.pdf%3Fdl%3D0" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">On Integrating Knowledge Graph Embedding into SPARQL Query Processing</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">,"  the  25th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2018</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Francesco Parisi, Noseong Park, Andrea Pugliese, V.S. Subrahmanian, "</span><a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1q_EYbjPt2XJ-ZVHGW9ikSMe1BdTx42OpXCch5Sc9oECKOC4-e9NoqSQx-7PHIy1CXOn6WV2aUa5j38trW2HCeoVgLWFqN9K_nzEVznLRIKO4VqVfxH8_2SrLpoCCuPBTT6z35QNc0yFwmdTrhLQNMhnCTnRm5X1Exz_kHsf_lMGBNA7NP9bFPlEoesBPn6x6TldDNURAH0w8R0yFoEl9-uWiLlUtQFkakEqRN0tgZ3c-p-s2GnSSK8UtkSoTAGgTKMChc2KhAm8GFRi8yis8MiEZWOoScw8RcuUvq5B9_9Ljxy51nL0OJNV_EQKQWfM_64UiQRsStNVnrTiU0xaRo45CRDqotkVIf9fRPMIsotTVDi-oOR8uGvpaxTiGOh0Ep1hqk_dBFk7sWCghY7QICgu2EohHfKwKAQAL5xcKIZ6IzN7c6rxdCROfmFfkYvVrOMwu49uu775DSmDHHW9Nxw/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fi1f3aq3dqt9t00k%2FTWEB2017.pdf%3Fdl%3D0" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Top-k User-Defined Vertex Scoring Queries in Edge-Labeled Graph Databases</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">," to appear in ACM Transactions on the WEB, 2018</span></p></li></ol><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-m_4292101944335953973gmail-m_-1196972350515591974gmail-m_-3964243678446012126gmail-il">Constrained</span> <span class="gmail-m_4292101944335953973gmail-m_-1196972350515591974gmail-m_-3964243678446012126gmail-il">optimization</span> and prediction-drive <span class="gmail-m_4292101944335953973gmail-m_-1196972350515591974gmail-m_-3964243678446012126gmail-il">optimization</span>:</span></p><br><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Bo An, Haipeng Chen, Noseong Park, and V.S. Subrahmanian, "</span><a href="https://secure-web.cisco.com/1C2Mw63EgaGBVTfUk5mrIPDc2WCGqzI1qYtFIDFXWhzkjmMzKziloRng93hqM0DhAdEVcul4LiR6RHl4JLe4KXnBHadTLgaFXipdErKaJzlYLNXUWv2yWcvwunVkt3923ZnLF6gSBqeVRgexDS5sdgzpjcmKxo0PeWtr5LIt_rAc1xMEuguS7GU46Iu3yPWNmsMQb0eDNCHjxFQs8glNRi_BQiyBJxMnKrqrWwflNxjUUDwO4l7UPUQcogpzzhsue7_GkJQ5YirlMhcGhLy7XQ3lbxnlph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-size:9pt;color:rgb(75,165,36)">Noseong Park, PhD </span><b style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px"><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:9pt">| </span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent">Assistant Professor</span></p><span style="font-size:9pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="font-size:9pt"></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:12px">Center for Secure Information Systems</span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="font-size:9pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:9pt;background-color:transparent">Information Sciences and Technology</span></p><span style="font-size:9pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="font-size:9pt"></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:12px">424, Research Hall</span><span style="color:rgb(0,154,70);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:10pt"><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-size:9pt"><br></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="font-size:9pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,154,70);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:10pt"><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-size:9pt">George Mason University</span><br></span></p><span style="font-size:9pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="font-size:9pt"></span><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span style="font-size:9pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,154,70);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:10pt"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:npark9@gmu.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span></a><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"><a href="mailto:npark9@gmu.edu" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-size:9pt">npark9@gmu.edu</span></a></span></span></span><b><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:9pt"> | </span></b><span style="color:rgb(0,154,70);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:10pt"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/npark" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-size:10pt"></span></a><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/npark" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36);font-size:9pt">Visit Homepage</span></a></span></span><br><span style="font-size:9pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="color:rgb(75,165,36)"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,154,70);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(75,165,36)">------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:rgb(75,165,36)">-------------------</span></span></p></h2></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>