Cong Shi recipient of Siemens sponsored Graduate Assistantship

Siemens Corporation has announced that ECE PhD student Cong Shi will be the recipient of a Siemens sponsored calendar year Graduate Assistantship. Shi's appointment is calendar from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020. The total award  package is worth $64K. The goal of Cong’s research is to applying machine learning techniques to solve security problems in mobile computing. In particular, it performs machine-learning based contactless user authentication on the Internet of things (IoT) devices.

Cong is currently pursuing Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, supervised by Prof. Yingying (Jennifer) Chen. His research interests include Machine Learning, Cyber Security and Privacy, Mobile Sensing and Healthcare.