Connectionists: PhD studentships: UKRI CDT in NLP, University of Edinburgh

[Frank Keller]

FULLY FUNDED FOUR-YEAR PHD STUDENTSHIPS

UKRI CENTRE FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

Based at the University of Edinburgh: in conjunction with the School of Informatics and School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.

Deadlines:
* Non UK:    25th November 2022
* UK:        27th January 2023

Applications are now sought for the UKRI CDT in NLP’s fifth and final cohort of students, which will start in September 2023.

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The CDT in NLP offers unique, tailored doctoral training comprising both taught courses and a doctoral dissertation over four years. 

Each student will take a set of courses designed to complement their existing expertise and give them an interdisciplinary perspective on NLP.  

The studentships are fully funded for the four years and come with a generous allowance for travel, equipment and research costs.

The CDT brings together researchers in NLP, speech, linguistics, cognitive science and design informatics from across the University of Edinburgh.   Students will be supervised by a world-class faculty comprising almost 60 supervisors and will benefit from cutting edge computing and experimental facilities, including a large GPU cluster and eye-tracking, speech, virtual reality and visualisation labs. 

The CDT involves a number of industrial partners, including Amazon, Facebook, Huawei, Microsoft, Naver, Toshiba, and the BBC.  Links also exist with the Alan Turing Institute and the Bayes Centre.

A wide range of research topics fall within the remit of the CDT:

* Natural language processing and computational linguistics
* Speech technology
* Dialogue, multimodal interaction, language and vision
* Information retrieval and visualization, computational social science
* Computational models of human cognition and behaviour, including language and speech processing 
* Human-Computer interaction, design informatics, assistive and educational technology 
* Psycholinguistics, language acquisition, language evolution, language variation and change
* Linguistic foundations of language and speech processing.

The next cohort of CDT students will start in September 2023.  Around 12 studentships are available, covering maintenance at the UKRI rate (currently £17,668 per year) plus tuition fees.  

Studentships are open to all nationalities and we are particularly keen to receive applications from women, minority groups and members of other groups that are underrepresented in technology.  Applicants in possession of other funding scholarships or industry funding are also welcome to apply – please provide details of your funding source on your application.

Applicants should have an undergraduate or master’s degree in computer science, linguistics, cognitive science, AI, or a related discipline; or have a breadth of relevant experience in industry/academia/public sector, etc.      

Further details, including the application procedure, can be found at: https://edin.ac/cdt-in-nlp 

Application Deadlines: Early application is encouraged but completed applications must be received at the latest by:

* 25th November 2022 (non UK applicants) or 27th January 2023 (UK applicants).

Enquiries: Please direct any enquiries to the CDT admissions team at: cdt-nlp-info at inf.ed.ac.uk.

CDT in NLP Virtual Open Day: Find out more about the programme by attending the PG Virtual Open Week in November.  Click here to register: https://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/open-days-events-visits/open-days/postgraduate-virtual-open-days

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