Connectionists: Helsinki ICT network: 15 doctoral student positions, call for applications

[Petri Myllymaki]

The Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and 
Communications Technology (HICT) is a collaborative doctoral education 
network hosted jointly by Aalto University and the University of 
Helsinki, the two leading universities within this area in Finland. The 
network involves at present over 50 professors and over 200 doctoral 
students, and the participating units graduate altogether more than 40 
new doctors each year.

The activities of HICT are structured along six research area specific 
tracks:

- Algorithms and machine learning
- Creative technologies
- Life science informatics
- Networks, networked systems and services
- Software and service engineering and systems
- User centered information technology

The quality of research and education in both HICT universities is 
world-class, but the education is still practically free as there are no 
tuition fees in the Finnish university system. Helsinki has been ranked 
as the World's Most Livable City (Monocle, 2011), and is the capital 
city of Finland, which is in the top 10 of the most highly educated 
nations in the world (OECD, 2013), and has been selected as the world’s 
best country to live in (Newsweek, 2010).

The participating units of HICT have currently 15 fully funded positions 
available for exceptionally qualified doctoral students. For more 
information and application instructions, see http://www.hict.fi/.

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