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Studentships for PhD study in
the School of Informatics at
the University of Edinburgh
FORTY research studentships are available for:
Many of these are full studentships, paying your tuition fees and a stipend of 12300 pounds to cover living expenses in your first year, rising in second and third years. The rest pay your fees and/or a contribution of 6150 pounds per year towards living expenses. Payment of fees for non-EU students is subject to successful competition for an Overseas Research Student award. PhD students are encouraged to make contributions to teaching, for example by leading tutorial groups, and for this you can expect to earn an additional 500-1000 pounds per year.
Informatics
Informatics is the study of information and computation, in both natural and engineered systems. It comprises a vast range of scientific and engineering endeavour and has enormous economic and social impact.
Edinburgh University's School of Informatics brings together the former Departments of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Computer Science, together with the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute. The School possesses a combination of breadth and strength unparallelled elsewhere in the UK and competitive world-wide; as an intellectual endeavour it is strikingly original.
The School is the only university grouping in the UK to have achieved the top 5*A rating in Computer Science in the UK government's 2001 Research Assessment Exercise round, and it is the UK's biggest research group in this area. We currently have around 250 students studying for PhD, and around 150 for MSc.
PhD study
PhD study is carried out within one of our six research Institutes:
ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
ANC fosters the study of adaptive processes in both artificial and biological systems; two themes are the study of artificial learning systems and the analysis and modelling of brain processes. CISA undertakes basic and applied research and development in knowledge representation and reasoning. Through its applications institute AIAI, it works with others to deploy the technologies associated with this research. ICCS pursues basic research into the nature of communication among humans and between humans and machines, using text, speech and graphics, and the design of interactive dialogue systems, using computational and algorithmic approaches.
ICSA seeks development of a better understanding of systems components, both hardware and software, and their integration and interaction; this involves not only improving their raw performance and cost-effectiveness, but also making them more connectable and interoperable, more reliable, more usable and more applicable. The interests of IPAB are how to link computational perception, representation, transformation and generation processes to external worlds---whether real or virtual. The mission of LFCS is to achieve a foundational understanding of problems and issues arising in computation and communication through the development of appropriate and applicable formal models and mathematical theories.
Projects
A very wide range of research topics is available for PhD study. Here is an (incomplete!) list of project areas; see
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/phdprojects.html
for some information on each of these.
ANC: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
CISA: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
ICCS: Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Free Adjuncts and Absolutes
Statistical Machine Translation for Biomedical Domains
Microphone-Array Based Speech Recognition
Language Models for Multiparty Conversations
Hidden Speech Production Models
Multimodal Information Access
Head Motion Synthesis for Lifelike Conversational Agents
Multi-Unit Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition
Induction of Wide-Coverage Categorial Lexicon from Large Amounts of
Unlabeled Text
Use of Intonation in Spoken Language Generation for Human-Machine Dialogue
Temporal Semantics
Grammar-Driven Language Models
Automated Musical Analysis
The Statistical Semantic Web
Extracting and Using Alternatives in Question Answering
Projecting Discourse Annotation from Parallel Corpora
ICSA: Institute for Computing Systems Architecture
Noise-Tolerant Asynchronous Circuits
Data-Dependent Processing for Energy-Aware Systems
Combining Model Checking and Theorem Proving
Compilers that Learn to Optimise
Searching the Embedded Program Optimisation Space
Automated Synthesis of Architectures and Compilers
Energy and Area Modelling for Architecture Synthesis
Microarchitecture Synthesis for Embedded Architectures
Low-Power Multi-Threaded Architectures
Reconfigurable Data-Parallel Structures for Embedded Computation
IPAB: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour
LFCS: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science
Further information
Information about graduate study, the School of Informatics, the University as a whole and the city of Edinburgh is available from:
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/ http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ http://www.ed.ac.uk
You can email queries to our Graduate Secretary at:
phd-admissions_at_inf.ed.ac.uk
or to individual members of teaching staff. Application forms are available from:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/applications/forms.html
Your application form should be returned by mid-March. Earlier applications have access to a wider range of sources of financial aid. Applications for an Overseas Research Student award must be completed by mid-February at the latest. Received on Sun Dec 18 2005 - 12:46:06 CST
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