Connectionists: FULLY FUNDED FOUR-YEAR PHD STUDENTSHIPS

[Thomas Hain]

FULLY FUNDED FOUR-YEAR PHD STUDENTSHIPS

UKRI CENTRE FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES AND
THEIR APPLICATIONS

Department of Computer Science

Faculty of Engineering

University of Sheffield

We are pleased to announce the opening of the UK Centre for Doctoral
Training (CDT)  in Speech and Language Technologies (SLTs) and their
Applications, hosted at The University of Sheffield. The centre aims to
become a world-leading hub for training scientists and engineers in SLT –
two core areas within artificial intelligence (AI) which are experiencing
unprecedented growth and will continue to do so over the next decade.  It
will give students the best possible advanced training in the theory and
application of computational speech and language processing, in a setting
that fosters interdisciplinary approaches, innovation and engagement with
real world users and awareness of the social and ethical consequences of
work in this area. Students will be taught by members of the
internationally recognised Speech and Hearing
<http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/> (SpandH) and Natural Language Processing
<https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/research/groups/nlp> (NLP) research
groups, with secondary supervision from relevant experts in other
disciplines across the University.

The CDT will provide fully-funded 4-year studentships in 5 intake cohorts
of 12 students per year totalling at least 60 studentships over the 8 year
programme. A significant number of PhD students will work in direct
collaboration with industry and all students will work on tasks and data
provided by real world applications.

The Centre will officially open on April 1, 2019 with our first intake
cohort of students starting October 2019. Formal applications will be
accepted beginning late April, but interested candidates may register their
interest now (see below). We expect to close applications for the coming
academic year by the end of June 2019.

Eligibility for funding: UKRI, the main funder of the studentships requires
most students to meet certain residence requirements. To be eligible for an
award a student must have no restrictions on how long they can stay in the
UK and have been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least 3 years prior
to the start of the studentship. These conditions would typically be met by
UK and some EU nationals. However, the CDT will have **some limited
opportunity to accept a small number of international students** who do not
meet the above criteria. More information on the decision making process
for international students will be available within the next few weeks. For
further details on UKRI conditions please see their website:
https://epsrc.ukri.org/skills/students/help/eligibility/.

For more details see: slt-cdt.ac.uk and for specific enquiries or to
register your interest please contact sltcdt-enquiries at sheffield.ac.uk.


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Thomas Hain
Technical Program Chair Interspeech 2019
Director UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Speech & Language
Technologies
Head of Speech and Hearing Research, University of Sheffield
Director Voicebase Centre for Speech & Language Technology
Professor of Speech and Audio Technology, University of Sheffield
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~th
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