Connectionists: Ph.D. studentship, Machine Learning, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U. K.

[Tingting Mu]

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.

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.

We will consider applicants who have:
*Very strong interest in the above research fields.
*An excellent undergraduate degree in Computer Science or Mathematics (or related discipline), and preferably, a relevant M.Sc. degree.
*Very good experience with computer programming of mathematical models  and algorithms (in Matlab, R or Python, or other platforms).
*Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
*Good ability to communicate with fellow students and colleagues.

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.

Qualified applicants are strongly encouraged to informally contact the supervising academic Dr. Tingting Mu (tingting.mu at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:tingting.mu at manchester.ac.uk>) to discuss the application and possible research titles prior to applying.
Supervisor's Webpage is  http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/tingting.mu
Further information about the application can be found at http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-research/apply/.
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