PhD Studies

Our group is looking for students with a strong quantitative background interested in pursuing PhD studies in a number of areas related to data science (DS): Statistics, Machine Learning, and Probability.

Please see the website of PhD studies at the BSE Data Science Center for further information.

About the Data Science Center

The Barcelona GSE Data Science Center coordinates and promotes interdisciplinary and methodological research, training, and knowledge transfer in Data Science. The Data Science Center community consists of leading academics, machine learning researchers from industry, and practitioners from the data science and analytics industry. The research group at the Data Science Center is leading in this area and has recently been recognized by several major funding bodies, for example, a Huawei grant for research in networks and graphical models, the BBVA grant in Big Data, and the Google Faculty Award.

The Data Science Center is part of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, which is a leading institution for research and graduate education in Economics and the social sciences. The Barcelona GSE offers seven Master’s programs, including a Master’s in Data Science, coordinated by the Data Science Center.

About Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) is a public, international and research-intensive university that, in just twenty-five years, has earned a place for itself among the best universities in Europe. Awarded with a CEI label (International Excellence Campus) by the Spanish Ministry of Education, the University also figures in some of the most influential rankings UPF has recently been featured as the 5th fastest-rising young university in the world by Times Higher Education, while the Department of Economics at the university is consistently ranked in the top 40 QS World University Rankings by Subject.