The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh (ILCC) has an open PhD studentship position in the area of natural language processing and machine learning.

The topic of research is the use of deep learning and representation learning techniques as applied mostly to natural language processing problems (though there is a significant flexibility in the type of problems that the student may work on).

The desired qualifications include an undergraduate background in computer science and related areas. There is a preference for candidates who have completed a master's in one of these areas or have research experience. This position is limited to students from the EU, but exceptionally strong overseas applicants will be considered as well.

If interested, please apply through here: http://web.inf.ed.ac.uk/ilcc/study-with-us and please let know me that you applied at scohen@inf.ed.ac.uk. The deadline for applications is 18/3/2017. The starting date is flexible, but preferably no later than September 2017.

For more information about the application process, feel free contact me at scohen@inf.ed.ac.uk.

About the School of Informatics:

The School of Informatics is one of the top-ranked departments of computer science in Europe, and one of the largest and best research centres in the world, with over 100 faculty and 400 PhD students and researchers. A national research assessment exercise (REF 2014) concluded that the School produced more world-leading and internationally excellent research in computer science than any other university in the UK. Our strength in machine learning, natural language processing, and the larger fields has been recognised by recent awards of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Science (fully funds 50 PhD students over 8 years), and by being selected as one of only 5 UK universities to be a founding partner of the Alan Turing Institute.

The city of Edinburgh is a beautiful city of historic sandstone buildings, many of which are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, that provides a high quality of life --- or, in the words of Alexander McCall Smith, "a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again."

For more information, see http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/.