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PhD Studentships, City University
May 16 04
Source: BCS-HCI
ELEVEN 3-YEAR PHD STUDENTSHIPS
City University
School of Informatics
Closing date for applications, 11th June 2004 _______________________________________
City University's School of Informatics undertakes world-class research in strategic areas that include artificial intelligence, geographic information systems, human-computer interaction, medical informatics, software and requirements engineering, and systems dependability.
The School is offering 11 full-time 3-year PhD studentships to support ongoing research on specific topics in these areas, to start in October 2004 and October 2005. More details on these topics are available at http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/news/researchstudentship.html.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
++ Effective rule extraction from neural networks Animal-based
++ reinforcement learning
++ Formal framework of co-ordination in open multi-agent normative systems
++ Principled Design for Nature-Inspired Optimisation
++ Supervisors include Dr Eduardo Alonso, Dr Artur Garcez and Dr Andrew Tuson
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS
++ Interactive Maps for Information Access
++ Using Geographic Information to Model Ethnophysiographic Representations of Landscapes
++ Representing and Analysing Mobile Phone Trajectories in 4D Space-Time
++ Supervisors will include Dr Jason Dykes, Professor Jonathan Raper and Dr Joseph Wood
HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
++ Designing interactive systems for the elderly and disabled
++ E-learning and usability
++ Safety-critical socio-technical systems
++ Virtual ethnography of computer mediated communication
++ Usability evaluation
++ Navigation
++ Supervisors include Dr Julia Galliers, Professor Helen Petrie, Stephanie Wilson and Dr Panayiotis Zaphiris
MEDICAL INFORMATICS & DIGITAL INFORMATION IN HEALTHCARE
++ Wearable computers in the operating room environment
++ Modelling of anastomatic device grafts in cardiac surgery
++ Digital information use by health professionals
++ Internet digital libraries
++ Supervisors include Professor Ewart Carson, Professor David Nicholas, Dr Abdul Roudsari, Dr Ian Rowlands and Dr Peter Weller
SOFTWARE AND REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
++ Service centric systems engineering
++ Scenario-driven software engineering
++ Creative requirements and software design
++ Traceability
++ Inconsistency management
++ Ubiquitous requirements engineering
++ Supervisors include Professor Neil Maiden, Dr George Spanoudakis and Dr Andrea Zisman
SYSTEMS DEPENDABILITY
++ Dependable services with diverse off-the-shelf software
++ Fault tolerance and diversity in human-computer systems
++ Safety cases, confidence, and diversity
++ Dependability modeling for security
++ Supervisors include Professor Robin Bloomfield, Professor Bev Littlewood, Dr Peter Popov and Professor Lorenzo Strigini
Application forms available from Alison Barrett at alisonb@soi.city.ac.uk. The closing date for applications is Friday 11th June at 17.00hrs.
Each application must indicate the key area and topics (listed above) that the candidate is applying to, and describe their research background and interests in that area and topic - open-ended applications will be automatically rejected. Final award of the studentships will be made in early July. Candidates should be available for interview during the second half of June, and ensure that referees can be contacted during that period.
Candidates are expected to have at least a 2.1 Honours Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject. Conditional awards can be made if students have yet to receive their final degree classification. Each successful applicant will receive a bursary of £14,000 per annum for each year of the studentship. Studentships will start on the 1st October 2004 and, depending on availability, 1st October 2005. More details about the School of Informatics are available at www.soi.city.ac.uk.