PhD Studentships at Aarhus University, Denmark
Several PhD Student positions are to open within the Data-Intensive Systems Group at Aarhus University’s Computer Science Department — ranked in Europe’s top 25 (http://cs.au.dk/).
The research area is in the broad field of representing, exploiting, mining, and searching in graph data, with a grounding on solid theoretical foundations; applications include the control of information diffusion in networks, the learning of latent graph representations to be used in lieu of the graph in data mining and structure-aware tasks, and the discovery of geo-social communities.
Studies are to commence in the academic year 2017-18.
Candidates will be characterized by the following qualifications:
- Strong background in computer science and mathematics.
- Knowledge and interest in data mining, data engineering, and machine learning.
- Excellent programming skills.
- Self-motivation, maturity, attention to detail, social and organizational skills.
- Stability, durability, and persistence.
- Fluency in oral and written English.
Aarhus University is one of the world’s 100 best universities and also one of the 50 most international universities, according to Times Higher Education. Given its determination to attract the most talented PhD students from all over the world, all activities at the PhD level are conducted in English.
Aarhus is a port city notable for its renowned music scene, the second largest city in Denmark and one of the oldest in Scandinavia, yet also one of the youngest by virtue of the average age of its inhabitants. Denmark regularly tops wellbeing indicators, ranks as the easiest place to do business in Europe, and harbors some of the best non-native English speakers in the world.
Interested students should send a cover letter and a detailed CV including areas of interest and reference contacts, with subject “PhD at CS/AU” to:
Panagiotis Karras
Associate Professor
Aarhus University & Aalborg University
panos@cs.aau.dk