Please pass this to students who might be interested in this. Thanks.
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Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM) at City University of Hong Kong is looking for applicants with strong academic background to pursue PhD in any area related to SEEM. Both final year undergraduate students and master students/graduates are welcome to apply.
Various funding schemes are available. In particular, please recommend your top students to apply for HK PhD Fellowship. It is a prestigious award established by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of the HKSAR Government, aims at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their research degree programs in Hong Kong's institutions.
The Fellowship provides a monthly stipend of HK$20,000 (~US$2,600) and conference and research related travel allowance of HK$10,000 (~US$1,300) per year for the awardees for a maximum period of three years. Each awardee of the Fellowship of CityU will also receive the "Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies Entrance Scholarships" (around HK$66,100, ~US$8,500) which covers student's full-time tuition fees and on-campus hostel accommodation expenses in their 1st year of research studies.
City University of Hong Kong has a strong Engineering school, and is ranked top among HK universities by Academic Ranking of World Universities:
http://www.shanghairanking.com/FieldENG2012.html
http://www.shanghairanking.com/FieldENG2013.html (just released, CityU is #25 in world ranking)
CityU's engineering research is also ranked #1 in Hong Kong according to the last Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities:
http://taiwanranking.lis.ntu.edu.tw/DataPage/countries.aspx?query=Engineering&country=HongKong
For Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, we are particularly interested in applicants with strong quantitative analysis skills to carry out research in any area of SEEM. Interested applicants could contact me or any of our faculty members:
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/staff-acad.htm
Should you or your students wish to know more about the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, please visit our website (http://www.sgs.cityu.edu.hk/prospective/rpg/hkphd/)
Interested applicants could also contact me ([log in to unmask]) for more information by attaching a full resume.
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