Prospective Students

I am looking for students (PhD, Masters, undergrads, interns) who are passionate about research, interested in data mining, machine learning and human-computer interaction research, and strong in programming and/or math. You will be mainly working on data mining and machine learning in real-world applications, especially on reinforcement learning, urban computing and human-in the loop machine learning. Master’s and undergraduate students within ASU and self-funded visiting students/scholars are also welcome to apply.

If you are interested in working with me, please see the instructions and fill out this form.

Did you know…

Hua goes live from 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm, Phoenix time, every Monday (Oct. 14, 2024, to Dec. 14, 2024) on Twitch. Chat with him directly with your questions.

Several fully-funded PhD positions are available in Fall 2025/Spring 2026.

•  I’m looking for highly motivated PhD/intern students to join my group. The official PhD application deadline for the Fall 2025 application cycle is Dec 31, 2024 (details). 

You are expected to have:

• Programming experience (preferably with Python and/or C++)
• Background in machine learning and/or data mining, which is a plus
• Mathematical foundation (e.g. probability theory, statistics, linear algebra, and optimization), which is a plus
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow, which is a plus
• Publications (at venues such as KDD, WWW, CIKM, AAAI, IJCAI, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, ECML-PKDD), which are pluses
• Recently, we are looking for students with backgrounds in embedded systems, robotics, and cyber-physical systems.

ASU MS students

I typically recruit ASU Master students from my CSE 572 Data Mining course, please consider taking it first.

ASU Undergrad students

I typically recruit ASU undergraduate students from hackathons or FURI/SURI/GCSP.

I will read every email, but unfortunately, I cannot afford to reply to all of them.