PhD Scholarships and Research Assistantships (SCIS/SMU, Singapore)
The School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS) at Singapore Management University (SMU) is the home of top-notch faculty, talented students and researchers who are enthusiastic to pursue first-rate, innovative academic research and publication while at the same time engaging in new initiatives that are problem driven and can be applied to national, regional and global needs. SCIS/SMU provides a highly collaborative and supportive environment as well as generous support for conducting high quality world-class research. It also actively fosters collaboration with internationally renowned universities and research labs. See https://sis.smu.edu.sg/research for details.
The Social NLP group led by Prof. Wei Gao (https://sites.google.com/view/gaowei/) in SCIS/SMU is pleased to invite applications for several PhD and two Research Assistant (RA) positions. Candidates will be conducting cutting-edge research to solve challenging Natural Language Processing and cross-area problems people daily face in our web and social spheres spanning different platforms, sources and languages.
Areas of Interest
Current research topics in Social NLP group include but are not limited to:
Natural language interaction (including language model)
Social/Multimodal NLP
Sentiment/Stance analysis
Misinformation and fact checking
Eligibility
Local and international students or graduates
Graduates with outstanding Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
Excellent skills in mathematical modeling and programming (e.g., Python, C/C++, R)
Excellent verbal communication skills in written and spoken English
Enquiries are welcome and can be made by email: weigao@smu.edu.sg. Applicants are strongly encouraged to get in touch for informal discussions before applications are filed up formally.
PhD Financial Support
All our admitted PhD students will be funded by a range of financial support schemes. Fully-funded PhD fellowships and scholarships with very attractive monthly stipend and allowance are available through SIS/SMU, such as
SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowships in Computing
SMU Full Scholarships
Industrial Postgraduate Programme (IPP)
Details about admission requirements and financial aid can be found at https://computing.smu.edu.sg/phd
Application Procedure
Online application for the PhD programme can be made via this link:
https://computing.smu.edu.sg/phd/online-application
Application for Research Assistant should be made directly by contacting Prof. Gao (weigao@smu.edu.sg). RA position is independent of the PhD programme. The positions remain open until they are filled.