Predoctoral fellowships available at UCSD

[Garrison Cottrell]

APPLICATION DEADLINE: JANUARY 14, 2005

Vision and Learning in Humans and Machines IGERT Program
http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/groups/igert/

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego

The Vision and Learning IGERT program is pleased to announce that 
predoctoral training fellowships are available for incoming Ph.D. 
students and existing UCSD Ph.D. students.  Prospective Ph.D. students 
must apply to a home department concurrently with applying for this 
fellowship.

The fellowships are supported by the National Science Foundation's 
IGERT program (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training) 
and provide an annual stipend of $30,000 plus the payment of tuition 
and fees. The fellowship is for a twelve-month period and renewable for 
an additional year.  NSF requires that candidates be citizens or 
permanent residents of the U.S.

The Vision and Learning IGERT program is for students who have an 
interdisciplinary interest in the areas of human vision, computer 
vision, human learning, and machine learning.  Our goal is to train a 
new generation of scientists and engineers who are as versed in the 
mathematical and physical foundations of computer vision and 
computational learning as they are in the biological and psychological 
basis of natural vision and learning.

Candidates from a wide range of backgrounds are invited to apply, 
including, but not limited to, Computer Science and Engineering, 
Cognitive Science, Psychology and Neuroscience.

We currently have sixteen fellows and 21 faculty affiliated with the 
program, representing numerous academic departments and research 
institutes, both on and off campus.

Participating Faculty include:

Gary Cottrell, Computer Science and Engineering (PI)
Geoff Boynton, Salk Institute (Co-PI)
Virginia de Sa, Cognitive Science (Co-PI)
Karen Dobkins, Psychology (Co-PI)
David Kriegman, Computer Science and Engineering (Co-PI)

Thomas Albright, Salk Institute
Marian Stewart Bartlett, Institute for Neural Computation
Serge Belongie, Computer Science and Engineering
Leslie Carver, Psychology and Human Development Program
Sanjoy Dasgupta, Computer Science and Engineering
Gedeon Deak, Cognitive Science and Human Development Program
Charles Elkan Computer Science and Engineering
Ione Fine, Psychology
Donald MacLeod, Psychology
Javier Movellan, Institute for Neural Computation
Vilayanur Ramachandran, Psychology
Martin Sereno, Cognitive Science
Joan Stiles, Cognitive Science and Human Development Program
Emmanuel Todorov, Cognitive Science
Jochen Triesch, Cognitive Science

Application information is available on our web site at 
http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/groups/igert/2005_igert_application.htm

The deadline for completed application materials, including letters of
recommendation, is January 14, 2005.

For more information about applying to the Vision and Learning IGERT 
program, please contact Andrew Kovacevic at alk at cs.ucsd.edu.