PhD studentships
Universities of Warwick, Kent, and Cambridge
Starting September/October, 2011
We are looking for three PhD students to join our interdisciplinary
team. These studentships are fully funded (for UK or EU candidates)
for 3.5 years as part of an EPSRC project on Advanced Bayesian
Computation for Cross-Disciplinary Research. Candidates should have a
good first degree in a relevant quantitative field such as applied
mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, physics, or
chemistry. Good programming skills in a high level language such as
Matlab, R or C/C++ are very desirable.
The students will be part of an interdisciplinary research project to
develop advanced statistical theory and algorithms that will directly
address current challenges in scientific modeling in biology,
astronomy and econometrics. This research is a collaboration between
bioinformatics and systems biology (Prof. David Wild, Warwick),
statistical machine learning (Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani, Cambridge),
statistics and econometrics (Dr. Jim Griffin, Kent) and astronomy
(Prof. Andrew Liddle, Sussex).
Choice of topics for the studentships are:
o Studentship 1 (Warwick; Prof. Wild): Applications of nonparametric
Bayesian modeling to a number of contemporary problems in
computational biology. New methods for Bayesian experimental design.
o Studentship 2 (Kent; Dr Griffin): Bayesian nonparametric methods
for Econometrics.
o Studentship 3 (Cambridge; Prof. Ghahramani): Nonparametric Bayesian
machine learning. The construction of efficient algorithms for
inference in statistical models based on GPU computation.
Applicants should include a full CV, names and contact details of two
referees, and an accompanying cover letter outlining their interests
and any previous research experience to Ms Diane Unwin, ds...@eng.cam.ac.uk
. * The cover letter must specify which studentship the applicant is
applying for. *
** Deadline: July 5th, 2011. **
Funding Note: The award will cover Home/EU tuition fees and a stipend
for 3.5 years. Note that students from outside the EU would need to
cover the difference between Home/EU and Overseas fees.
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Zoubin Ghahramani
Professor of Information Engineering
University of Cambridge
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