One PhD studentship in Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University

One PhD studentship is available in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University funded under the EPSRC Doctoral Training Awards. These pay fees and a stipend at an EPRSC-set level, currently 12,940 GBP a year for UK candidates, and fees only (no subsistence)  for EU candidates.
***Overseas candidates are NOT eligible.***

Potential candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a cognate discipline at the 2(1) level or an equivalent academic qualification. Please submit a CV (including the names of two academic referees) and short (max 6-pages) research proposal in one of the following specific areas relating to research groups in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt. Further details of groups and their members are available at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/cs/resareas/index.htm

Computer Science at Heriot-Watt offers an active and stimulating research atmosphere with more than 50 current PhD students organised in internationally-leading research groups. It ranked equal 3rd among Scottish CS Departments in the 2008 RAE and is a member of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance uniting Scotland’s CS Research Universities. Its researchers hold substantial funding from both UKRC and the EU – see http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/cs/resareas/grants.htm.

Research areas:

VIS&GE – synthetic characters, affective systems, interactive narrative, interactive and game-based educational systems

ULTRA – computerisation of mathematics, types and rewriting in programming languages and mobility calculi, types in logic and theorem proving

Intelligent Systems Lab – membrane computing, ambient intelligence,
artificial immune systems, systems biology, evolutionary computing

Dependable Systems Group – formally-motivated computing, systems modelling, programming languages, automated reasoning, parallel/distributed/mobile systems, Pervasive and Ad Hoc systems

To apply, please send your CV and research proposal to: ruth@macs.hw.ac.uk with a short covering email which must indicate which research group and specified research area your proposal covers.

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Deadline: June 19th