大家好！我将于 2025 年秋季 加入 University of Mississippi 计算机与信息科学系 担任助理教授，2025年在密歇根州立大学获得计算机科学博士学位, 2020 年在上海交通大学获得电子工程学士学位。研究实验室 Secured AI Systems (SAIS) Lab 计划在 2026 年春季和秋季学期 招收 1–2 名对 AI for Security 感兴趣的博士生。有兴趣的同学可提前通过邮件联系： 邮箱：cbchen7[at]gmail[dot]com （请附 CV、成绩单） 邮件标题：[26Fall/26Spring-PhDApplication-Name]

Research Overview

My research aims to address the following question:

What is the worst-case behavior when chatbots are widely deployed in real-world settings, and can we design secure chatbot systems given that current large language models, due to their probabilistic nature, cannot reliably enforce security policies?

Some of the research directions I am currently working on are:

• Chatbot system security: system-level defense by design for chatbot systems and worst-case behavior analysis for chatbot systems.
• Failure modes analysis: use computational pragmatics to investigate the mechanisms underlying failures when models are unable to generalize from security policies.

What I Can Provide

• Hands-on mentoring
• Career Support: internship and award/fellowship nominations
• Full scholarship, travel funding, and computational resources
• The freedom to explore your research interests in AI/ML
• A friendly and supportive lab environment

What I Expect From You

• 具备计算机科学或统计学相关背景
• 能积极沟通，诚实
• 对回答 “为什么” 感兴趣，乐于分析复杂问题或进行系统实现

Why University of Mississippi

• University of Mississippi 是一所 R1 研究型大学，同时也是密西西比州的旗舰大学 (flagship university)。
• 校园位于大学城 Oxford，距离孟菲斯约一小时车程，环境优美，生活安全。

👉 更多信息请见：https://bocheng-chen.github.io/