Dear CS PhD Students, A GRA position is available for CS PhD students who are interested in dedicating their dissertation research to AI for youth online safety. Specifically, this role involves developing a chatbot framework aimed at enhancing awareness of cybergrooming among youth. This opportunity is ideal for students commencing their PhD in Fall 2024 or those who began their studies in Fall 2023 or Spring 2024 and have not yet selected a dissertation advisor and topic. This position will be supported by a recent NSF award: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2330940&HistoricalAwards=false. Preferred Qualifications: - Natural Language Processing - Deep Reinforcement Learning - Social Cybersecurity - Proficiency in Machine/Deep Learning techniques If you are interested and meet the qualifications, please submit your most recent CV and unofficial transcripts from both your undergraduate and graduate studies to jicho@vt.edu. Use the subject line "GRA for the NSF Cybergrooming Project." Suitable candidates will be contacted for an interview. Thank you! Best regards, Jin-Hee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jin-Hee Cho, Ph.D., IEEE Senior Member Associate Professor | Department of Computer Science Faculty Fellow | College of Engineering Affiliate Faculty | National Security Institute Virginia Tech 7054 Haycock Road Falls Church, VA 22043-2368 Email: jicho@vt.edumailto:jicho@vt.edu Phone: (703) 538-8302 Fax: (703) 538-8348 Homepage: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~jicho/ Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wToVkEUAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wToVkEUAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~