PHD Scholarship: Distributed Data-Intensive Service Composition

Value: NZ$25,000pa stipend plus tution fees for 3 years.
Tenure of award: 3 years.

Closing dates for applications:

The successful student is expected to start before 1 Nov 2016. The position is open until filled.

Number of awards offered: One.

History or background of award

A scholarship, supported by the Marsden Fund, is available for a PhD student to work in the Evolutionary Computation Research Group, School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand.

The scholarship will cover tuition fees, provide a stipend for up to 3 years and support a Marsden funded project in distributed data-intensive service composition. The project will focus on developing new evolutionary computation algorithms for data-intensive service composition, selection and distribution. Research experience and knowledge in the area of web services and service composition, combinatorial optimisation, distributed database systems, and/or big data would be an advantage. The student will be supervised by Dr. Hui Ma at VUW and Prof. Sven Hartmann at Clausthal University of Technology, and work together with other people at the Evolutionary Computation Research Group.

Selection criteria

Applicants need a BSc with a first class Honours or Master’s degree in Computer Science (with a GPA of 3.5/4.0 or above), including research experience and publications in web service composition and distribution, databases, big data, evolutionary computation, and/or combinatorial optimisation. Strong programming skills (Java/C++, R, Matlab ) are required.
The applications also need to meet the English requirements to enter the PhD program in Computer Science at VUW.

How do students apply?


Regulations
Additional information

Students will be responsible for payment of the student levy and international insurance (if applicable).

Additional academic training cost including travel to a conference may be available on a case by case basis.

Decision makers

Applications will be considered by a team led by Dr Hui Ma.
What conditions are attached to acceptance of this award?

Successful applicants will be required to sign a Victoria University Research Scholarship contract.
Who else has information about this award?

For more information on our research, please visit http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Groups/ECRG/ and https://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Main/HuiMa.

For guidelines, application forms and more information about this award contact:


Position: The Scholarships Office
Organisation: Victoria University of Wellington
Address: PO Box 600 Wellington 6140 New Zealand
Phone: +64 4 463 5557
E-mail: scholarships-office@vuw.ac.nz
Website: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/study/student-finance/scholarships

Two PhD and two Post-doc Positions in computational social science ,Dalian University of Technology, China

Two Phd and Two Post-doc Positions in computational social science (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Deadline for application: 19 Feb 2016.

The Mobile and Social Computing Laboratory (http://msclab.org/) at Dalian University of Technology, China conducts interdisciplinary, application-driven academic research in social computing and mobile computing. The Lab now has 30+ members, including 10+ PhD students (from six countries on this planet!). 

We are opening 2 PhD student positions in social computing (including e.g. computational social science, data analytics, big scholarly data, social network analysis, etc). All positions will be coupled to full Chinese Government Scholarships. Basic living allowance will be 3,500 RMB/month, plus Comprehensive Medical Insurance and Benefit. The scholarships are exempt from registration fee, tuition, and fee for basic learning materials. Accommodation on campus will be provided for free. The University will offer excellent working conditions.

We are opening two full-time post-doc positions. The successful applicant is expected to work on topics like computational social science, (scholarly/social) data analytics, or mobile social networks. The salary will be around 6,000 RMB/month, plus other Benefits. We will offer excellent working conditions.

Supervisor: Professor Feng XIA
Working location: Dalian University of Technology @ Dalian, China
Start date: ASAP (Negotiable)
Duration: 2 years (fixed)

Qualifications:

1. Applicants shall have PhD in related disciplines.
2. A good command of the English language (in speaking and in writing) is required.
3. Research experience in related areas is required.

Application procedure:

Please submit your application via email to Dr. Feng Xia (f.xia@ieee.org). The application should include a detailed CV (including email addresses of two referees), a brief statement of research plan (no more than one page), and at least two best scientific documents/publications written by yourself (in English). There is no deadline for application, but we will not accept applications once the positions are fulfilled. Interested applicants are highly encouraged to submit applications as soon as possible. 

For further information regarding these positions, please contact Dr. Feng Xia (http://FengXia.NET).