One PhD studentship in Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University
One PhD studentship is available in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt
University funded under the EPSRC Doctoral Training Awards. These pay
fees and a stipend at an EPRSC-set level, currently 12,940 GBP a year
for UK candidates, and fees only (no subsistence) for EU candidates.
***Overseas candidates are NOT eligible.***
Potential candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer
Science or a cognate discipline at the 2(1) level or an equivalent
academic qualification. Please submit a CV (including the names of
two academic referees) and short (max 6-pages) research proposal in
one of the following specific areas relating to research groups in
Computer Science at Heriot-Watt. Further details of groups and their
members are available at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/cs/resareas/index.htm
Computer Science at Heriot-Watt offers an active and stimulating
research atmosphere with more than 50 current PhD students organised
in internationally-leading research groups. It ranked equal 3rd among
Scottish CS Departments in the 2008 RAE and is a member of the
Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance uniting Scotland’s
CS Research Universities. Its researchers hold substantial funding
from both UKRC and the EU – see http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/cs/resareas/
grants.htm.
Research areas:
VIS&GE – synthetic characters, affective systems, interactive
narrative, interactive and game-based educational systems
ULTRA – computerisation of mathematics, types and rewriting in
programming languages and mobility calculi, types in logic and
theorem proving
Intelligent Systems Lab – membrane computing, ambient intelligence,
artificial immune systems, systems biology, evolutionary computing
Dependable Systems Group – formally-motivated computing, systems
modelling, programming languages, automated reasoning, parallel/
distributed/mobile systems, Pervasive and Ad Hoc systems
To apply, please send your CV and research proposal to:
[log in to unmask] with a short covering email which must indicate
which research group and specified research area your proposal covers.
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Deadline: June 19th
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Ruth Aylett Professor of Computer
Science
Mathematics and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University
Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK Tel: 44-131-451-4189 Fax:
44-131-451-3327
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ruth/ "Life is beautiful"
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Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity
registered under charity number SC000278.
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