he School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh has an open PhD
studentship position in the area of natural language processing and
machine learning.
The topic of research is the use of deep
learning and representation learning techniques as applied mostly to
natural language processing problems (though there is a significant
flexibility in the type of problems that the student may work on).
The
desired qualifications include an undergraduate background in computer
science and related areas. There is a preference for candidates who have
completed a master's in one of these areas or have research experience.
This position is limited to students from the EU.
If interested, please apply through here:
http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/study-with-us and please let know me that you applied at
sco...@inf.ed.ac.uk. The deadline for applications is 18/3/2017. The starting date is flexible, but preferably no later than September 2017.
For more information about the application process, feel free contact me at
sco...@inf.ed.ac.uk.
About the School of Informatics:
The
School of Informatics is one of the top-ranked departments of computer
science in Europe, and one of the largest and best research centres in
the world, with over 100 faculty and 400 PhD students and researchers. A
national research assessment exercise (REF 2014) concluded that the
School produced more world-leading and internationally excellent
research in computer science than any other university in the UK. Our
strength in machine learning, natural language processing, and the
larger fields has been recognised by recent awards of the EPSRC Centre
for Doctoral Training in Data Science (fully funds 50 PhD students over 8
years), and by being selected as one of only 5 UK universities to be a
founding partner of the Alan Turing Institute.
The city of
Edinburgh is a beautiful city of historic sandstone buildings, many of
which are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, that provides a high
quality of life --- or, in the words of Alexander McCall Smith, "a city
of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so
beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.”
For more information, see
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/.
Best regards,
Shay Cohen
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/scohen