Team and Recruiting

Current PhD Students

Joong Ho Kim is a CSE PhD Student at LSU under the supervision of Dr. Mills. Joong Ho obtained his BSc in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022, and then later an MSc in Computer Science from California State University in San Bernadino, under the supervision of Dr. Bilal Khan, where he also completed a Summer Research Fellowship at UC Riverside. His research interests and directions broadly relate to making AIGC models more effective and efficient.

Souhardya Saha Dip is a CSE PhD student at LSU, supervised by Dr. Mills. He earned his BSc in Software Engineering with distinction from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in 2023. Before joining LSU, he was working as a software engineer at IQVIA, where he developed AI-enabled healthcare applications and integrated AI agents into real-world systems. His contributions were recognized with a Gold Award in the IQVIA Impact Program. His work has contributed to publications at Interspeech 2023 and ICDAR 2023. His current research interests pertain to Interpretable Automated Machine Learning (AutoML).

Recruiting

At the moment, I have a checklist of three items for prospective students:

1) In the subject line of your email, mention the name of my research group at LSU CSE

2) In the body of your email, explicitly mention what topic you are interested in working on and how I am a good fit to be your advisor on that topic.

3) Before hitting send, read this wonderful post by the LSU CSE Chairman, Dr. Abe Baggili, as well as the comment I left on the post. Then, revise your email to incorporate the tips and avoid pitfalls.