PhD Student Bursary Call for Applications
The Intelligent Computer Systems Centre in The Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol, is pleased to solicit applications for a bursary to support research leading to a PhD. The background and interests of the candidate will determine the area of research. Areas of interest where candidates will be considered include:
Bio-Computation: Developing new ant-colony-based optimisation algorithms, with application areas that include Protein Structure Prediction (an area of enormous significance, particularly in light of The Human Genome Project).
Heuristic Optimisation: Developing fast, meta-heuristic methods (e.g., evolutionary computation coupled with mathematical programming) for complex, real-world problems of production planning and scheduling.
Machine Learning: Developing methods for adaptation in complex, multi-element control systems that learn from experience (e.g., collective mobile robots, distributed robotic systems, distributed systems of software agents, etc.).
Medical Informatics: Developing artificial intelligence techniques (e.g., evolutionary computation or neural networks) that augment and add functionality to medical decision systems (e.g., epidemiology databases, etc.).
Applications are welcome from all candidates with a good command of English (normally IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL 600), regardless of nationality. However, travel costs to and within the United Kingdom are not paid.
As a PhD student, the successful candidate will be expected to make an original research contribution, and should have a good first degree/masters in an area relevant to one of the research topics listed above. The ideal candidate will have programming knowledge in a modern language (Java, C, C++, etc.). An appropriate member of the ICSC staff, depending on the research area selected, will supervise the research.
==================================================== Dr Uwe Aickelin Faculty of Computer Studies and Mathematics University of the West of England Bristol BS16 1QY UK Email: Uwe.Aickelin@uwe.ac.uk Tel. (+44)(0)117 344 3134 Fax (+44)(0)117 3443155