PhD Student Positions
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Scholarships for PhD in Computer Science and Engineering
Portugal or USA+Portugal
University of Lisbon / Carnegie Mellon University
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LASIGE offers
scholarships for the University of Lisbon PhD program in Computer Science and
Engineering (a.k.a. PhD in Informatics), open to students of all nationalities:
PhD from University of Lisbon: full time
in Lisbon.
Dual PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and
University of Lisbon: CMU and FCUL have been offering a dual program---
one program, two PhD degrees, living approximately half of the time in each town
(Pittsburgh and Lisbon).
The continuation of this program,
under the Portuguese-Government supported CMU|Portugal partnertship, is under
evaluation, more will be known later. More info at:
http://cmuportugal.di.fc.ul.pt/.
DEADLINE: The application process to the
PhD Program is open all year round; analysis of applications is made at periodic
cut-off intervals, and selected students are advised about the next steps.
*NEXT
CUT-OFF DATE: 31/May/2012*
See application instructions at the bottom
Benefits
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- Students will benefit from an extremely lively research and teaching
environment in top, state-of-the-art, areas.
- Full financial support, through a number of scholarships to cover tuition
and expenses of students, regardless of nationality.
- Students can apply to both programs.
Main research areas of this call
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- SECURITY AND INTRUSION TOLERANCE in Distributed Systems
- DEPENDABILITY and ADAPTATION in Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Knowing more about the research opportunities
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Research areas, aligned with international projects:
- DEPENDABLE AND SECURE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES
- KEYWORDS: resilient cloud computing operation; critical infrastructures such
as electrical utility SCADA/DCS; middleware and protocol support for
distributed execution; intrusion tolerance; computing with trustworthy
components; security information and event management (SIEM)
- EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF ATTACK TOLERANCE IN DISTR. SYS.
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KEYWORDS: commerce and critical infrastructures; attack injection tools;
security evaluation of distributed systems and software components
- DEPENDABLY ADAPTIVE REAL-TIME DISTR. SYSTEM
ARCHITECTURES
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KEYWORDS: cooperative automotive and avionic applications (platooning,
free-flight); systems of embedded systems; middleware and protocols;
autonomy and cooperation; uncertainty vs. predictability; safety, QoS
adaptation; green (resource and energy efficient) networks
- RESILIENCE OF NETWORKED OPERATIONS AND MONITORING SYSTEMS
- KEYWORDS: operations, administration and management (OA&M); dependable
sensor networks; complex event processing middleware and protocols; secure
and dependable environment and datacenter monitoring; resilient big data computing
platforms
These areas are aligned with 5 ongoing international projects:
- TCLOUDS - Trustworthy Clouds – Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale
Critical Infrastructure (EC-IST FP7)
- MASSIF - MAnagement of Security information and events in Service (EC-IST FP7)
- TRONE - Trustworthy and Resilient Operations in a Network Environment (FCT
CMU|Portugal program)
- KARYON- Kernel based ARchitecture for safetY critical cONtrol (EC-IST FP7)
- SECFUNET- SECurity for FUture NETworks (EC-IST FP7)
Application documents and conditions
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Eligible candidates:
- Holders of MSc degrees or equivalent.
- Graduates with a licenciatura with a minimal average grade 16/20.
- Holders of foreign academic qualification declared equivalent.
- Holders of an academic and professional scientific curriculum that
reflects a capacity to the PhD qualification.
- Candidates from other areas granted a request for Equivalence
- Publications, awards and other relevant aspects included in the Curriculum
Vitae will be considered in the selection
- Affinity of research interests and experience in the proposed areas will
also be considered
Students can apply to either or both programs. They should state their
choice(s) in the statement of purpose. Pre-selected students will be invited to
complete their application to the program(s) selected.
Applicants should prepare the following
elements:
TO BE SENT/SUBMITTED BY APPLICANTS:
- Curriculum vitae -- including name, address, degrees, work/research experience,
publications, achievements, etc.,
- Scanned transcripts of grades and degrees claimed -- official documents will
be required if pre-selected.
- General admission tests -- GRE and TOEFL (check alternatives to TOEFL
here); In case you are not in possession of the scores by the application
deadline, please mention it in the statement of purpose and give a prediction
for delivery. Portuguese candidates applying only to PhD from
University of Lisbon have this requirement waived.
- A statement of purpose (up to one page) with -- the personal motivations for
applying to the Univ. Lisboa; indication of the PhD program(s) they apply to;
the desired research areas from the list in the call, in order of preference;
and an optional request for financial support AND/OR indication of any
alternative or supplemental support.
The elements are to be submitted through the following site:
http://www.navigators.di.fc.ul.pt/wiki/Form:Candidate
TO BE SENT BY REFEREES:
- Three letters of reference, sent by the referees directly to us, in
plain ascii or pdf or paper, as follows:
Subject: PHD SCHOLARSHIPS
Body:
To Whom it may concern
Letter of Reference on behalf of Mr./Dr. so-and-so
...text...
Contacts and position of person recommending.
- The letters can be sent sither by
- Email to navs-jobs@di.fc.ul.pt
- Postal address:
LaSIGE, Navigators
Dpt. de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências, Univ. de Lisboa,
Campo Grande, Bloco C6
1700 - Lisboa, Portugal - Fax: +351 21 750 05 33
Email informal enquiries / expressions of
interest to the same address:
navs-jobs@di.fc.ul.pt
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On-line information:
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General:
http://www.navigators.di.fc.ul.pt/?Welcome:PhD_Student_Positions
Dual Program:
http://cmuportugal.di.fc.ul.pt/
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