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<font class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, U. K. is offering a funded Ph.D. studentship, which covers the full costs of UK/EU tuition
and standard living fees. </span><br class="">
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<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This research work will be within the fields of machine learning, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. The broad aim will be to develop advanced mathematical modelling and large-scale
optimisation techniques, to simulate human intelligence for solving complex tasks, such as matching, recognition, relation extraction, or text/image understanding. The developed techniques will be simulated on real-world tasks, such as generating text description
of image/video content, question answering, image understanding, language interpretation, etc. </span><br class="">
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<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We will consider applicants who have: </span><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">*Very strong interest in the above research fields. </span><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">*An excellent undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Mathematics (or related discipline), and preferably, a relevant M.Sc. degree. </span><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">*Very good experience with computer programming of mathematical models and algorithms (in Matlab, R or Python, or other platforms). </span><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">*Excellent report writing and presentation skills. </span><br class="">
<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">*Good ability to communicate with fellow students and colleagues. </span><br class="">
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<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please, note that applicants must additionally satisfy the standard requirements for postgraduate studies at the University of Manchester, such as a first-class or high upper-second class (or an equivalent
international qualification) and English language qualifications, as stated in the PGR guidelines. </span><br class="">
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<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Qualified applicants are strongly encouraged to informally contact the supervising academic Dr. Tingting Mu (</span><a href="mailto:tingting.mu@manchester.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">tingting.mu@manchester.ac.uk</a><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)
to discuss the application and possible research titles prior to applying.</span></font>
<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;"><font class="">Supervisor's Webpage is <a href="http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/tingting.mu" class="">http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/tingting.mu</a></font></span></div>
<div class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 14px;"><font class="">Further information about the application can be found at <a href="http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/apply/" class="">http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/apply/</a>.</font></span></div>
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