CS Top-Conference PhD Recruitment Roundup

PhD recruitment roundup: 5 openings from top-conference authors (week of June 4, 2026)

Five verified PhD and postdoc openings from researchers with recent NeurIPS / ICML / ICLR / CVPR / ACL publications: Kaiyuan Zhang at Rutgers (AI agent security), Guanzhi Wang at Northwestern (agentic AI and robotics), Omar Khattab at MIT CSAIL (NLP systems, DSPy), the 2026 MLCommons Rising Stars cohort spanning 26 institutions, and a University of Kansas ML/DL GRA. Each listing includes application details, research direction, conference record, and lab culture notes.