HKUST CSE Postgraduate Student Recruiting Message

[Derek Hao Hu]

HKUST CSE Postgraduate Student Recruiting Message
香港科技大学计算机系研究生招生信息

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Hong Kong UST is
recruiting PhD students to start in Fall 2010. We are looking for
outstanding undergraduate students as well as outstanding graduate
students with Masters degree with some research experience. We are
looking for postgraduate students in all areas in computer science and
related areas, including but not limited to, artificial intelligence,
data and knowledge management, networks and networking systems,
software technologies, theoretical computer science and vision and
graphics. We also encourage students interested in multi-disciplinary
areas such as bioinformatics, risk management and business
intelligence and computational finance. To find out more about us,
please visit our CSE website (http://www.cse.ust.hk/)

Our department consists of outstanding faculty members and graduate
students with over 40 faculty members and over 100 PhD students. Our
medium of teaching and research is English. Besides having a strong
publication track record, our faculty and students are among the first
to develop advanced and popular P2P systems, industry standards on
RFID and sensor networks, computer graphics and vision systems, large-
scale data mining and machine learning systems for Web search, GPU and
parallel computing for database query processing, to name a few. After
getting their PhDs, our students find jobs in worldwide research labs
such as Microsoft Research, Google, IBM and top universities in
Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. A student who has a
master’s degree is expected to graduate with a PhD in 3-5 years, and
an undergraduate degree to graduate in 5-7 years.

Starting in 2010, we are particularly happy to offer the prestigious
Hong Kong PHD Fellowship of HK$20,000 (~USD 2,580) per month, plus a
travel allowance of HK$10,000 (~USD 1,290) for three years with a
limited quota. Exceptionally qualified PhD applicants (top 10% in
class, >85% GPA, excellent English command) are welcome to contact
potential faculty supervisors and apply by Dec 1, 2009. This
fellowship award is offered centrally by University Grant Council of
Hong Kong.

We also offer a large number of postgraduate research studentship
awards at HK$156,000 per year (~USD 20,000/year). Our admission
requirement for English is one of recent TOEFL(cbt)>=580, IELTS>=7, or
TOEFL(ibt)>=92 by the time you enter HKUST. Tuition fee at HKUST is
around HK$42,100 per year.

We are recruiting in two phases. Our first phase, which has already
started, is an early recruiting session which is targeted for PhD
applicants through telephone or onsite interviews. To qualify, please
send your CV to pgre...@cse.ust.hk AND ALSO fill out the preliminary
application form at http://www.cse.ust.hk/pg/admissions/registration/
for preliminary screening. We don’t have a specific deadline, but we
have a limited quota and therefore applicants are considered on a
first-come-first-serve basis. Therefore, please try your best to apply
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

After the early recruiting session, applicants can still send regular
application packages to HKUST Postgraduate Admissions (https://
www.ab.ust.hk/arr/adm/pg/admissions/RPG/RPG.html) at any time before
March 15, 2010. We also accept a limited number of applications to
self-financed MPhil program (http://www.cse.ust.hk/pg/admissions/self-
financed/). Please indicate your application clearly if you are
interested in the MPhil program.

You can learn more about our PhD program through our department
website and especially you can check “Where do Our PhD Graduates Go”
section (http://www.cse.ust.hk/pg/ourgraduates/).

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact
pgre...@cse.ust.hk.