PhD Openings

PhD Positions Available! (expected start date: Fall 2025)

WISP lab is looking for highly-motivated PhD students to join in Fall 2025. The students will be working on one or multiple of the available research topics related to cybersecurity, AI, gaming, digital twining, and education (see below) in Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences (PhD Program), currently ranked 70^th in the U.S. News graduate schools ranking and 19^th in the U.S. News undergraduate cybersecurity programs ranking, and ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute @ RIT, located at Rochester, NY with over 1.1M population in the metropolitan area and a great quality of life.

If you are proficient in programming (particularly C++) and have a strong background in either game design or cybersecurity, please send to hanif.rahbari@rit.edu a short description of your interests along with your CV/resume, transcript(s), and anything else that you believe can highlight your relevant qualifications. (GRE scores are encouraged although not required.)

Some of the available research topics include:

Digital twins
Gamification for cybersecurity education
Distributed machine learning and deep learning
Post-quantum algorithms on embedded devices
Trust in connected vehicle communications (including 5G C-V2X)

For more about WISP lab's past and current research projects, see Research at RIT's ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, our Projects (mostly up-to-date), and for our current testbed and research facilities, our Facilities.