CS Top-Conference PhD Recruitment Roundup

5 PhD / RA openings from top-conference authors — week of June 2, 2026

Five verified PhD and research openings from faculty with NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, and ACL publications: Daniel Fried (CMU, NLP), Tyler Derr (Vanderbilt, Graph ML), Ethan Wilcox (Georgetown, computational linguistics), Hongsheng Li (CUHK, embodied AI / multimodal), and Ziqi Zhou (HUST, AI security). Each entry includes research direction, lab culture notes, stipend status, application deadline, and direct contact or portal link.