Connectionists: CommAI PhD Fellowhsip

[Marco Baroni]

We are happy to announce a Facebook PhD Fellowship sponsored by the CommAI
project.
Facebook Fellowship program The Facebook Fellowship Program is designed to
encourage and support promising doctoral students. Winners of the
Fellowship are entitled to receive two years of tuition and fees paid, a
stipend of $37,000 each year, and up to $5,000 in conference travel
support. Applications will be evaluated based on the strength of the
student's research statement, publication record, and recommendation
letters.
CommAI and the CommAI Fellowship CommAI is an ambitious project hosted by
Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research, aiming to develop a new
generation of intelligent systems that are able to quickly adapt to an
endless streams of new tasks through communication. More information about
the project can be found on the CommAI page
<https://research.fb.com/projects/commai/>.

We would like to support through the CommAI Fellowship a student who is
working on non-incremental approaches to addressing interactive AI. Topics
of interest include but are not limited to continual learning,
meta-learning, bio-inspired AI, interaction-based learning, ideally pursued
with techniques that differ from standard Deep Learning and Reinforcement
Learning. Women and scientists from under-represented groups are especially
encouraged to apply.
How to apply Information on how to apply will be posted on this page
<https://research.fb.com/programs/fellowship/> on September 1, 2017. If you
want to apply to the CommAI-sponsored Fellowship, make sure you specify
CommAI as your research area. You are welcome to send, at any time, an
expression of interest to the address commai at fb.com.
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