Title: PhD positions at the University of Edinburgh

Link: http://www.edinburghnlp.org/cdt/

Text:

FULLY FUNDED FOUR-YEAR PHD STUDENTSHIPS

UKRI CENTRE FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

School of Informatics
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh

UK Research and Innovation has recently announced funding for a Centre
in Doctoral Training in Natural Language Processing (CDT in NLP) at
the University of Edinburgh. This CDT offers unique, tailored doctoral
training consisting of both taught courses and a doctoral
dissertation. Both components run concurrently over four years. Each
student will take a set of courses designed to complement their existing
expertise and give them an interdisciplinary perspective on NLP. They
will received full funding for four years, plus generous
funding for travel, equipment, and research costs.

The CDT brings together researchers in NLP, speech, linguistics, cognitive
science, and design informatics from across the University of Edinburgh.
Students will be supervised by a team of over 40 world-class faculty
and will benefit from cutting edge computing and experimental facilities,
including a large GPU cluster and eye-tracking, speech, virtual reality,
and visualization labs. The CDT involves over 20 industrial partners,
including Amazon, Facebook, Huawei, Microsoft, Mozilla, Reuters, Toshiba,
and the BBC. Close links also exist with the Alan Turing Institute and the
Bayes Centre.

The first cohort of CDT students will start in September 2019, and we
are now seeking applications. A wide range of research topics fall
within the remit of the CDT:

• Natural language processing and computational linguistics

• Speech technology

• Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision

• Information retrieval and visualisation, computational social science

• Computational models of human cognition and behaviour, including
  language and speech processing

• Human-Computer interaction, design informatics, assistive and
  educational technology

• Psycholinguistics, language acquisition, language evolution,
  language variation and change

• Linguistic foundations of language and speech processing
  Approximately 8 studentships are available, covering both maintenance
  at the research council rate of GBP 15,009 per year and tuition fees.
  Studentships are available for UK, EU, and non-EU nationals.

Applicants should have an undergraduate or master?s degree in computer
science, linguistics, cognitive science, AI, or a related discipline. We
particularly encourage applications from women, minorities, and members
of other groups that are underrepresented in technology.

Further details including the application procedure can be found at:

http://www.edinburghnlp.org/cdt/

In order to ensure full consideration for funding, applications
(including all supporting documents) need to be received by 29 March
2019. Please direct inquiries to the PhD admissions team at
cdt-nlp-admissions@inf.ed.ac.uk.

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.