PhD Scholarship Opportunity in Computational Neuroscience and AI

[Wong-Lin, Kongfatt]

Dear Systems Neuroscience community, 

Please kindly help announce the below fully-funded PhD scholarship opportunity to your community. Many thanks. 

Best Wishes, 

KongFatt Wong-Lin 

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Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Machine Intelligence, 

Intelligent Systems Research Centre, 

School of Computing, Engineering and Inteligent Systems, 

Ulster University, 

UK

https://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/k-wong-lin

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Professor KongFatt Wong-Lin has a fully funded 3-year PhD scholarship in NeuroAI. The scholarship is available to both international and local applicants. 

This PhD project will work on the frontier of bridging fundamental cognitive computational neuroscience of decision-making to novel brain-inspired AI algorithms. Application (deadline 27th Feb 2026) is available at: 

https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/11b-intelligent-systems/1790150  

Please contact him for queries: k.won...@ulster.ac.uk ; https://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/k-wong-lin

The successful applicant will become a member of our Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurotechnology research team, which Prof. Wong-Lin is leading: 

• https://www.ulster.ac.uk/research/topic/computer-science/intelligent-systems-research-centre/teams/neural-systems-and-neuro-technology

The School and associated Intelligent Systems Research Centre (https://www.ulster.ac.uk/research/topic/computer-science/intelligent-systems-research-centre) comprise neuroscience and AI related research communities and facilities: 

* NeuroAI and computational neuroscience 

* Neuromorphic computing

* Brain-computer interfaces and neurotechnology (EEG, MEG) 

* High-performance computing

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* ranked 2nd for Ph.D. researcher satisfaction

* 6th largest Computer Science and Informatics unit

* 7th for world-leading or internationally excellent research and impact with respect to staff number. 

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