Wednesday, January 25, 2017

[DMANET] PhD studentships available at University of Essex, UK

We are delighted to announce 5 fully funded PhD Studentships for
Home/EU students (with up to 1 available for overseas students),
covering fees plus stipend. Stipends will match standard EPSRC rates
(£14,553 for 2017-18). Studentships are for a period of 3 years and
start from 1st October 2017.

Our School has a large and thriving graduate research community. We
provide an active and stimulating environment to carry out doctoral
research and have an extensive range of specialist labs and
facilities.

All Computer Science and Electronic Engineering research areas are
included, but we are especially interested to hear from applicants for
the following topics:

* Brain Computer Interfaces and Neural Engineering
* Wireless Networks
* Optical Networks
* Cyber-Security
* Neural Networks and Deep Learning
* Computational Finance and Economic Agents
* Robotics
* Natural Language Engineering and Computational Narrative
* Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
* Optimisation

More details, including application procedure, can be found at
https://www.essex.ac.uk/csee/fees_and_scholarships/default.aspx

The deadline for applications is Feb 28, 2017.

Prospective applicants with interests in Algorithmic Game Theory and,
more generally, Computational Finance and Economic Agents and/or
Optimisation are welcome to contact myself for informal enquiries.

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