PhD Studentship
High Performance Data Mining and Machine Learning Algorithms in Computational Sciences
School of Systems Engineering
University of Reading, UK

Full-time, fixed-term for 3 years

BACKGROUND

In many areas of Science the widespread availability of high throughput technologies has fostered an unprecedented opportunity to collect and analyse vast amounts of experimental data. The discovery of patterns, information and knowledge in large, structured and unstructured data sets is fundamental for advances and discoveries in Computational Sciences.

The scholarship will support a Ph.D. student to study efficient Data Mining and Machine Learning algorithms for applications in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. The scholarship is integrated into a larger project, which leverages parallel and distributed computing to provide a general, extensible, component-based, distributed data mining framework for computational sciences.

Further details may be obtained from Dr G. Di Fatta, tel: +44(0)118 378 8221, email: G.DiFatta[at]reading.ac.uk.

Research Environment and Computing Infrastructure
The project is set in the international research environment of the "Parallel, Emergent & Distributed Architectures" (PEDAL) group at the School of Systems Engineering and the "Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies" (ACET) Centre. The ACET Centre is leading the Computational Science Cross Cutting research at the University of Reading, focusing on modelling and simulation of complex systems, scalable algorithms, tools and environments for collaboration and Grid computing. The excellent computing infrastructure includes an IBM Blade Centre with 3040 processing elements, which is ranked 36th in the June 2007 top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers.

REQUIREMENTS

Applicants should have completed a degree in Computer Science or a strongly related discipline. Strong computing and mathematical skills are preferable. Experience in any field related to the project, such as data mining, machine learning, parallel and distributed computing, bioinformatics and chemoinformatics, are preferable.

COMPENSATION

This studentship covers both academic fees (£3240 for UK and EU students) and subsistence (£12600) for a total of £15840 per annum for three years. Additional academic fees for overseas students are not covered.

HOW TO APPLY

Application forms are available from Mrs Anita Ray, a.l.ray[at]reading.ac.uk, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AY, UK. Application forms are also available in Word/RTF format from http://www.sse.rdg.ac.uk/prospective_students/postgraduate.htm.

An application should include a CV, two sealed reference letters, copies of academic transcripts and degree certificates and an English certificate if English is not your first language. All the application documents should be sent to the address given above.

Please quote Reference LVLS1707

The University is an Equal Opportunities Employer

DEADLINE

Closing date: 20 August 2007

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