A fully-funded PhD scholarship has become available at UCL Computer Science (4 years, tuition fees covered, stipend provided). International candidates are also eligible to apply. The scholarship is funded by G-Research. PhD supervisors must be academic faculty members of the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The topic of the PhD can be about anything quantitative within AI / Machine Learning (ML) with the expectation to produce research outcomes that can be submitted to globally leading AI / ML conferences.
If you are interested, please send me (v.lampos@ucl.ac.uk) your CV and a short research proposal using this LaTeX template. The deadline for this initial step is January 31, 2025. However, the sooner you submit this material and/or get in touch with me the better (as there is more time to meet, discuss, and provide feedback).
The deadline for submitting your final application is February 24, 2025.
Student applications will be ranked by a committee within the UCL Centre for AI and the top one will be offered the position. Although this is a competitive selection process, the small amount of eligible PhD supervisors means that there is a relatively greater chance of success.
G-Research will not be involved in the determination of the research topic or the research itself. The successful candidate, however, will have additional benefits for career development (all optional based on the candidate's preferences). These include a bi-annual career mentorship with a G-Research Quantitative Researcher, a place on G-Research's Spring into Quant Finance Programme during their second year, presentation and seminar invitations, an annual dinner, and brand ambassador status.
If you are interested in a PhD topic in either health and machine learning (any topic we can find data for), time series forecasting or natural language processing, please get in touch. Please have a look at our current publications and do not hesitate to reach out via email (v.lampos@ucl.ac.uk) for more information. If you are successful in your application, you will be based at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). UCL is one of the top universities in the world and its AI centre one of the best places for this kind of research training in the UK.
Prior to applying formally, please send an email with:
- a CV (2 pages max), and
- optionally a research statement (6 pages max, excluding references) with a lay summary (abstract) of your proposed research, a background review of related work in this area, the core research proposal and how it fits within the current and past research landscape, and a description of what you would like to achieve (and how) in the first 6-12 months of your PhD. Please use this LaTeX template for your research statement.
Please note that although you can definitely contact me without sending a proposal in the first instance, the development of a proposal will be an essential and very crucial part of your application process.
It will be beneficial to begin this process as early as possible in the academic year, e.g. October of year x-1, if you want to start a PhD in September of year x. Detailed instructions for formally applying are available here (general PhD in Computer Science call) and here (UCL research excellence scholarship, deadline: January 2025, positions are competitive, but fully funded). Please note that applications unless otherwise stated are formally being reviewed twice in the academic year with soft submission deadlines in mid-January and mid-April, and that all PhD candidates will need to go through an interview process. For exceptional cases we might be able to expedite the process outside of these predetermined dates.
Currently, no postdoc positions are available.