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Fully Funded D.Phil Studentship

Posted: 19th November 2008

The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group is offering a fully funded D. Phil position at Oxford University's Computing Laboratory.

The position is associated with the EPSRC project "Consequence-Driven Ontology Reasoning", under the supervision of Ian Horrocks and Yevgeny Kazakov, which will address reasoning procedures for ontology languages such as the W3C standard OWL.

The studentship is fully funded (at EU fees level - overseas candidates will need supplementary funding). Students admitted with a start date between 1st January and 1st October, 2009 will receive a guarantee of 3 years funding.  It includes a stipend of at least £12,940 per year as well as provision for travel to conferences.

Candidates must satisfy the usual requirements

http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/prospective/dphil/dphil-criteria.pdf

for studying for a doctorate at Oxford. The deadline for receipt of applications is 1st February, 2009. Further Information and how to apply can be found here:

http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/prospective/dphil/ihfurtherinfo.pdf

For specific questions related to the position, you may also send an email to the people mentioned below under "related pages".