2019 PhD Student Openings in Applied Machine Learning and Bioinformatics at CityU(HK)
(
http://bioinfo.cs.cityu.edu.hk/)
Each Fellowship recipient will receive financial award in the amount of USD169,200 for the 4-year PhD study. The financial award consists of CYC SGS Entrance Scholarship (which covers the tuition and on-campus hostel fees in the first year of research study), and a monthly stipend and a conference and research-related travel allowance. Students with outstanding academic progress in their later years of study may receive a Research Tuition Scholarship to cover their full tuition fees.
The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme will invite applications for 2019 entry from 1 September – 1 December 2018 (12.00.00 GMT +8 hours). The key milestones and application procedures are as follows:
Step 1:
Applicants should first submit an initial application at the RGC's Online Application System (OAS) (
www.rgc.edu.hk/hkphd) to obtain a RGC reference number (RGC ’ s deadline: 1 December 2018 [12.00.00 GMT +8 hours]).
Step 2:
Applicants are then required to submit full application, together with supporting documents, to CityU's Online Admission System or (
https://www.sgs.cityu.edu.hk/prospective/apply/notesrp), and quote the RGC reference number (CityU ’ s deadline: 1 December 2018).
Please put down "Ka-Chun Wong" as your potential supervisor in your applications (i.e. please type "Ka-Chun Wong" in the question "If you have contact any CityU academic staff member, please provide his/her fullname." in the Other Information section in the CityU(HK) graduate school application system); otherwise, your applications may not reach us.
Announcement of Fellowship results by the RGC: March 2019
Firm admission offer with regular postgraduate studentship will be given to selected CityU ’ s nominees, even if they are not awarded the Fellowship by the RGC. The admission offer will be confirmed by the University in January 2019.