RESEARCH DEGREES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
This department intends to recruit a number of postgraduate research students
to commence studies in October 1998. Successful applicants will read for an
M.Phil or Ph.D. The department has four research groups, with interests as
follows:
Verification and Testing
Formal Specification, Verification and Testing, Object-Oriented Languages and
Design, Proof Theory, Safety-Critical systems, Biocomputing and Multimedia
databases.
Communications and Distributed Systems
Broadband Communication Networks, Data over Cable TV Infrastructure,
Network Modelling, Performance Prediction and Evaluation, Network
Tariffing, New Protocols for Multi-service Networks (Z39.50, GSM/SMS),
Distributed Systems, Fault-tolerant Systems, Active Networks, Virtual
Environments, Information Brokerage.
Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
Natural Language Processing, Neural Networks, Robotics, Computer Graphics,
Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Computer Argumentation.
Speech and Hearing
Auditory Scene Analysis, Models of Auditory Perception, Automatic Speech
Recognition, especially Large Vocabulary Recognition and Recognition in Noise.
For more details, browse
<<<http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research
For funding possibilities, see
<<<http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/admissions
Candidates for all awards should have a good honours degree in a relevant
discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), or should attain such a degree
by September 1998. Part-time registration is a possibility.
For details on how to apply, see
<<<http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/admissions/applns.html
Informal enquiries may be addressed to research group heads (in web pages) or
Dr. Phil Green, phone +44-114-222-1828, email p.green@dcs.sheffield.ac.uk