PhD Advisors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute 伍斯特理工学院 US
Quick answer: Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US has 84 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 5 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
Showing 84 professors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (5)
Professors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Erin Ottmar
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I direct the Math Abstraction Play Learning an Embodiment (MAPLE) lab at WPI. I am actively looking for undergraduate and graduate students with a wide range of backgrounds who are interested in working (or volunteering) in the MAPLE lab. If you are interested, please contact me!
Mathematics Education, Educational Psychology, Applied Developmental Science, Social and Emotional Learning and Development, Perceptual Learning Interventions in Mathematics, Educational Technology
Jun Dai
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ Dr. Dai is always looking for self-motivated students at all levels (undergraduates, master, and PhD). Stipends are competitive if offered paid positions. If you have interests, please email him. Post-doctoral and visiting researchers or students are also welcome.
artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and networked and distributed systems, with recent emphasis on large language model (LLM) security, autonomous agent security, advanced attack detection, vulnerability analysis, secure coding, and cybersecurity education
Mali Ghajargar
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ She is actively looking for undergraduate and graduate students with a wide range of backgrounds who are interested in working in the lab.
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Qi Zhang
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I am looking for PhD students and visiting researchers!
building collaborative AI agents; formalisms, theories, and algorithms of single- and multi-agent planning and reinforcement learning
Xiaozhong Liu
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
⭐ I’m actively looking for PhD students with good experience in NLP and/or deep learning.
natural language processing (NLP), text/graph mining, information retrieval/recommendation, metadata, and computational social science. His recent research is focusing on AI explainability/trustworthiness, natural language generation via deep learning, cybercrime/security, and hu…
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Adam Sales
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andre Nachbin
Harold J. Gay Professorship · School of Arts & Sciences
Waves in Fluids
Partial Differential Equations and Applications
Andrea Arnold
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Computational Inverse Problems, Bayesian Inference, Nonlinear Filtering, Parameter Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, Mathematical Biology
Angela Incollingo Rodriguez
Associate Professor & Program Director, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences · School of Arts & Sciences
Psychophysiology: Cortisol & Inflammation
Social Stress: Stigma & Discrimination
Maternal Health
Weight & Obesity
Eating & Dieting
Chronic Pain
Arthur Heinricher
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Applied Probability, Stochastic Processes, Optimal Control Theory
Bahman Moraffah
Assistant Professor of Teaching · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Balgobin Nandram
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Bayesian Statistics
Survey sampling
Small Area Estimation
Categorical Data Analysis
Bayesian Computation
Bogdan Vernescu
Professor of mathematical sciences · School of Arts & Sciences
Partial Differential Equations
Homogenization
Calculus of Variations
Fluid/Solid Mechanics
Brigitte Servatius
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Rigidity of Graphs
Tensegrities
Motions of Molecules
Buddika Peiris
Associate Professor of Teaching · School of Arts & Sciences
Order Restricted Inference
Meta-Analysis
Bayesian Statistics
Actuarial Science
Burt Tilley
Professor & Department Head · School of Arts & Sciences
Mathematical Modeling, Fluid Mechanics, Free Boundary Problems, Heat Transfer, Perturbation Methods, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Carly Thorp
Professor of Practice · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Carolina Ruiz
Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences and Harold L. Jurist ’61 and Heather E. Jurist Dean’s Professor of Computer Science · School of Arts & Sciences
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, Applications of Machine Learning to Medicine, Digital Health
Charles Roberts
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Charlotte Fowler
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Biostatistics, Missing Data, Causal Inference, Time Series Analysis, Mobile Health, Latent Variables
Cheng Zhang
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Program Verification, Semantics of Programming Language, Kleene Algebra, Transition Systems -- Coalgebra, Logic in Computer Science, Lightweight Formal Method
Christopher Larsen
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Partial Differential Equations
Calculus of Variations
Geometric Measure Theory
Applications to Materials Science, particularly Fracture Mechanics
Craig Shue
Professor & Department Head · School of Arts & Sciences
Cybersecurity, Computer Networking, Distributed Systems
Craig Wills
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Internet Measurement, Online Privacy, Distributed Computing, User Interfaces
Crystal Brown
Assistant Professor & Program Director, Technology, Policy, and Sustainability · School of Arts & Sciences
comparative politics; international relations; public policy women, marginalized groups; inclusivity migration; race/ethnicity and politics; governance STEM education; science-technology policy data analytics; research methods
Dalin Tang
PR - Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Computational Biomathematics
Computational Biology and Bioengineering
Image-based Ventricle Models
Image-based Artery Models
CFD, FSI, finite element, numerical methods
Daniel Reichman
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Theoretical Computer Science
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Darko Volkov
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Partial Differential Equations Theory, Integral Equations Theory, Inverse Problems
Dmitry Korkin
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Elke Rundensteiner
Professor, Computer Science, Program Head, Data Science · School of Arts & Sciences
Data Science and Big Data Analytics
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Mining
Visual and Interactive Analytics
Fair Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making
Digital Health: Leveraging Smart Digital Technology for addressing Wellness & …
Big Data Infrastructure…
Emmanuel Agu
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Mobile Health, Mobile Sensing, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Erin Solovey
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Accessibility, Novel Interaction Modes & Techniques, Adaptive User Interfaces, Physiological and Wearable Computing, Human Interaction with Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy, Future of Work, STEM E…
Fabricio Murai
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
His research lies in the application of mathematical modeling, statistics and machine learning to computer, informational and social networks.
Fangfang Wang
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Time Series Analysis
Spatial Statistics/Spatial Econometrics
Financial Econometrics
Risk Management
Francesca Bernardi
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Small-Scale Fluid Mechanics, Microfluidics, Water Filtration, Experimental Design, Applied Mathematics, STEM Education
Gabor Sarkozy
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Graph theory, Discrete mathematics, Theoretical computer science
George Heineman
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Software Engineering, Component-Based Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Modularity and Composition
Gillian Smith
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Computational Creativity, Computational Craft, Procedural Content Generation, Artificial Intelligence and Social Justice, Game Artificial Intelligence, Game Design, Computer Science Education, Ungrading
Gu Wang
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Mathematical Finance, Stochastic Analysis
Guanying Peng
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Calculus of Variations
Applications to Materials Science and Continuum Mechanics
Hanmeng Zhan
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jacob Whitehill
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Machine learning, Affective computing, Intelligent tutoring systems, Computer vision
Jane Ivy Coons
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jim Doyle
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Mental Models of Complex Systems, Environmental Cognition and Behavior, Survey Methodology, Risk Perception and Communication
Joseph Fehribach
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Porous Electrodes
Kirchhoff Graphs
Applied Differential Equations
Scientific Computing
Kathryn Moncrief
Professor & Department Head, Humanities & Arts · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Keenan Kidwell
Assistant Professor of Teaching · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Khalid Saeed
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
System Dynamics
Public Policy
Economic Development
Healthcare Delivery and Health
https://wp.wpi.edu/operationaleconomics/
Kyumin Lee
Professor and Program Director of Data Science & AI · School of Arts & Sciences
Social Computing, Machine learning/AI, AI for Social Good, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval
Lane Harrison
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Information Visualization, Visual Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction
Marcel Blais
Professor of Teaching · School of Arts & Sciences
Liquidity Modeling, Volatility Derivatives, FinTech
Marcus Sarkis-Martins
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Numerical Analysis, Domain Decomposition, Finite Element Methods
Mark Claypool
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Multimedia Networking, Network Games, Wireless Networking, Congestion Control, Information Filtering
Mayer Humi
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Mathematical Physics, Celestial Mechanic, Atmospheric Flow, Lie Groups, Differential Equations
Michael J. Radzicki
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
System Dynamics Modeling, Macroeconomics & System Dynamics, Economics & System Dynamics, Predictive Analytics
Min Wu
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Morphogenesis, Nonlinear Mechanics, High Performance Computing
Neil Heffernan
Professor & Program Director of Learning Sciences and Technologies · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Oleg Pavlov
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
System Dynamics Modeling
Systems Thinking
Feedback Economics
Oren Mangoubi
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Patricia Agupusi
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Qingshuo Song
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Stochastic Analysis
Financial Mathematics
Control Theory
Raha Moraffah
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Randy Paffenroth
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Machine learning for engineering and the physical sciences, Signal Processing, Compressed Sensing, Network Analysis, Interaction between mathematics, computer science and software engineering, Mathematical theory for deep learning
Ray Zirui Zhang
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
scientific machine learning and numerical analysis, with applications in biophysics and cancer research
Richard Lopez
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Social neuroscience, Emotion regulation, Digital media use, Enhancing mental health and wellbeing via emotion regulation training, Mental health and wellbeing
Robert Krueger
Professor & Department Head of Social Science and Policy Studies · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Robert Walls
Associate Professor, Computer Science, Program Director, Cybersecurity · School of Arts & Sciences
Security and Privacy, Systems Performance, Digital Forensics, Computer Crime Law
Rodica Neamtu
Professor of Teaching · School of Arts & Sciences
Data Mining, Machine Learning, Big Data, Time Series Analytics, Brain Waves Analytics, Information Retrieval and Integration, Exploratory and Predictive Financial Tools, Alternative Augmentative Communication for People with Disabilities
Roee Shraga
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Data Integration, Data Discovery, Human-in-the-loop, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs)
Sam Walcott
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Samuel Tripp
Assistant Professor of Teaching · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Sarah Olson
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Mathematical Biology, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Scientific Computing, Locomotion, Tissue Engineering
Stacy Shaw
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Stephan Sturm
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Stochastic Modeling, Financial Mathematics
Tian Guo
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, AR/VR, Deep learning Systems, Distributed Systems
Walter Gerych
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
William Martin
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Algebraic Combinatorics, Association Schemes, Quantum Information theory, Digital Communications, Cryptology, Error-correcting Codes
William Sanguinet
Assistant Professor of Teaching · School of Arts & Sciences
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Wilson Wong
Associate Professor of Teaching · School of Arts & Sciences
Software Engineering and Information Systems Capstone Innovations
Computer Science Education
Social network analysis
Computer Systems and Architecture
Xiangnan Kong
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Data Mining, Machine Learning
Xiaoyan Sun
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Cybersecurity, including network and distributed system security, AI security, IoT & embedded system security, mobile & software security, privacy, security & digital forensics education and workforce training etc.
Yanhua Li
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
artificial intelligence (AI) and data science, with applications in smart cities in many contexts, including spatial-temporal data analytics, urban planning and optimization. Recently, his research has an emphasis on advancing imitation learning and meta learning in AI for learni…
Zheyang Wu
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Statistical Genetics
Statistical Decision Theory
Statistical Experimental Design
Zhongqiang Zhang
Professor · School of Arts & Sciences
Scientific machine learning
Uncertianty Quantification
Numerical Stochastic Differential Equations
Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing
Frequently asked questions
How many professors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are hiring PhD students in 2026?
As of 2026-10-19, 5 professors at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a US university, show active PhD hiring signals in phd-match's faculty database.
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phd-match lists 84 faculty profiles at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, each with research interests, department, and a link to the professor's homepage.
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No. Worcester Polytechnic Institute is one of 174 universities phd-match covers across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore (US 97, UK 17, AU 10, CN 26, HK 8, CA 10, SG 6).
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Data last updated: 2026-10-19 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.