<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">PhD Student Position available Spring/Fall 2027 — AI in Biomedical Engineering</span></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)">H-Lab | Department of Computer Science | University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS)</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">PI: Yu (Andy) Huang, Ph.D.</span> — Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UCCS</div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Contact:</span> <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:yhuang6@uccs.edu" id="gmail-OWA05a47741-5bd1-eb96-47fe-53b2d37274cc" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:yhuang6@uccs.edu" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><u>yhuang6@uccs.edu</u></a></span> </div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><u>About the Lab</u></span></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The newly established H-Lab, directed by Dr. Huang, sits at the boundary between physics, engineering, computer science, and biomedicine. Dr. Huang was trained as a biomedical engineer and created ROAST, the field-standard open-source pipeline for personalized modeling of transcranial electric stimulation (TES), spending five years helping commercialize it in industry before returning to academia. He has also built machine-learning systems, developed with practicing radiologists, that detect disease from medical images at expert-level accuracy. The H-Lab’s current interests focus on developing AI systems for biomedical engineering and bioinformatics. Future interests include understanding modern deep-learning systems, embodied AI, neuromorphic computing, and artificial life. For the lab’s longer-term research visions, please refer to the <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://andypotatohy.github.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-OWAb727aca2-bbb9-06dc-fae3-e753421c7985" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://andypotatohy.github.io/" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><u>PI’s webpage</u></a></span>.</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><u>Research directions</u></span></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We are recruiting one PhD student to help build AI systems for biomedical engineering & informatics. Specific research topics include but not limited to:</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:15px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;list-style-type:disc"><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" role="presentation" style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:1.38;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;direction:ltr">Algorithms development</div></li><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;list-style-type:di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t,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The position will open in Spring 2027 or Fall 2027 semester, fully funded with stipend and tuition waiver for 2 years. Interested applicants should apply via <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://eas.uccs.edu/academics/programs/computer-science-phd#admission-details" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-OWAa88c3513-68ea-53d8-18c9-dc387a5068b1" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://eas.uccs.edu/academics/programs/computer-science-phd#admission-details" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><u>the department website</u></a></span> <u>by October 1st</u> for the Spring admission or <u>by February 1st</u> for the Fall admission. Applicants should note in their Personal Statement on <u>which research direction(s) above interest you most and why</u>, and <u>mention Dr. Huang as your doctoral advisor</u>. Applicants are also encouraged to send their CV and unofficial transcript in PDF format to Dr. Huang at <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:yhuang6@uccs.edu" id="gmail-OWA373409e7-136f-703c-87bb-8476b12b69b7" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:yhuang6@uccs.edu" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><u>yhuang6@uccs.edu</u></a></span>.</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><u>Why UCCS Computer Science</u></span></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)">One of the few departments nationally offering both a PhD in Computer Science and a standalone PhD in Cybersecurity — the latter designated an NSA National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Research (CAE-R), the first such designation in Colorado.</div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Faculty expertise spanning AI, machine learning, computer vision, NLP, biomedical informatics, cybersecurity, computer networks, software engineering, and multiagent systems, across 10 cross-disciplinary research labs.</div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Research funded by NSF, DoD, and AFOSR, including four NSF CAREER awards and an AFOSR Young Investigator award among current faculty.</div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:1.38;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0pt 0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;direction:ltr;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Located in Colorado Springs, with deep aerospace, defense, and tech industry ties (alumni at Google, IBM, Lockheed Martin, MITRE, Northrop Grumman, and beyond) and a fast-growing research profile.</div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b>Yu (Andy) Huang, Ph.D.</b></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br></b></div><div>Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science<br>Department of Computer Science<br>University of Colorado at Colorado Springs<br>1420 Austin Bluffs Pkway, Colorado Springs, CO 80918</div><div dir="ltr">Email: <a href="mailto:yhuang6@uccs.edu" target="_blank">yhuang6@uccs.edu</a>, <a href="mailto:andypotatohy@gmail.com" target="_blank">andypotatohy@gmail.com</a></div><a href="https://andypotatohy.github.io/" target="_blank">Website</a></div></div></div></div>