Four new Centers for Doctoral Training are to be established by the Department of Computing and its academic partners.

The UK government has announced a £350 million investment that  will be used to train over 3,500 postgraduate students in over seventy new Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs), spread across 24 UK universities.

The Department of Computing  will lead one of these centres and participate in a further three in collaboration with its academic partners. Each centre will fully fund 50+ PhD students over the next 5 years, in partnership with major companies and research institutions.

The first of these CDT's will be in the area of High-Performance Embedded and Distributed Systems, and will be based in the Department of Computing and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.  Professor Wayne Luk,  the head of the  Programming Languages and Systems Section and the Custom Computing Research Group, will lead the Centre. The aim of the Centre will be to offer broad research opportunities for PhD study, ranging from implantable smart sensors to secure clouds. For more details see:

http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/hipeds/

The second CDT will be run in partnership with ourselves, the Departrment of Chemistry at Imperial College London and  Imaging Sciences & Biomedical Engineering Division at King’s College London. The senior Academic from the Department of Computing in this partnership will be Professor Daniel Ruckert who is a Professor of Visual Information Processing and heads the Biomedical Image Analysis group.The partnership will  create an interdisciplinary training approach specifically designed to meet challenges in healthcare and Medical Imaging. The CDT will have links with key industrial partners and St Thomas’ Hospital where the Centre will be based.  For more details see:

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/medicine/research/divisions/imaging/study/imaging-centre/index.aspx

The third CDT "Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE)" will be a collaboration between ourselves at Imperial Collgege London and the University of Reading via the Grantham Institute for Climate Change. The aim of the Centre will be to offer research opportunities in mathematical and computational techniques needed to understand, predict and quantify extreme weather and climate change. The CDT will have links with key industrial partners including the Met Office , ECMWF and other leading centres of research and doctoral training in weather and climate science. For more details see:

http://mpecdt.org/

The fourth CDT is hosted by Imperial College’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering and aims to foster collaborative research  across the Faculties of Engineering, Medicine and Natural Sciences to develop research training in Neurotechnology. The Department of Computing being one of these collaborative partners.

The Centre  will also be collaborating with 20 partners in industry and the charity sector to create a unique programme that will train a new generation of researchers across a range of disciplines. Working in cross-disciplinary teams at the interface of neuroscience and engineering, they will develop and harness new technologies for understanding and treating brain disorders. The Centre also involves satellites at Oxford and the Crick Institute. For more details see:

//www3.imperial.ac.uk/neurotechnology

Latest PhD funding news

The National Environment Research Council (NERC) is providing over £6m funding for the DTP, which is one of fifteen created across the UK. It is a collaboration between the College, six key research partners and 27 other private and public sector partners.

Twenty five new students will join the DTP every year for five years, receiving in-depth, advanced research training, as well as training in professional and transferable skills. Partners will offer training and secondment opportunities designed to enhance the students’ employability. Those partners with business and government experience will also provide skills coaching in policy, regulation, and entrepreneurship.

NERC is funding 75 new studentships and Imperial is contributing 50 studentships to the cohort.

For more details see //www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_5-11-2013-16-17-38