The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is recruiting PhD students

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is recruiting PhD students to
start in Fall 2010. We are looking for outstanding undergraduate students as
well as outstanding graduate students with master's degree with some
research experience. We are looking for postgraduate students in all areas
in computer science and related areas, including but not limited to,
artificial intelligence, data and knowledge management, networks and
networking systems, software technologies, theoretical computer science and
vision and graphics. We also encourage students interested in
multi-disciplinary areas such as bioinformatics, risk management and
business intelligence and computational finance. To find out more about us,
please visit our CSE website at (http://www.cse.ust.hk/).

Our department consists of outstanding faculty members and graduate students
with over 40 faculty members and over 100 PhD students. Our medium of
teaching and research is English. Besides having a strong publication track
record, our faculty and students are among the first to develop advanced and
popular P2P systems, industry standards on RFID and sensor networks,
computer graphics and vision systems, large-scale data mining and machine
learning systems for Web search, GPU and parallel computing for database
query processing, to name a few. After getting their PhDs, our students find
jobs in worldwide research labs such as Microsoft Research, Google, IBM and
top universities in Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. A student
who has a master's degree is expected to graduate with a PhD in 3 years, and
an undergraduate degree to graduate in 4 years.

Starting in 2010, we are particularly happy to offer the prestigious Hong
Kong PHD Fellowship of HK$20,000 (~USD 2,580) per month, plus a travel
allowance of HK$10,000 (~USD 1,290) for three years. Exceptionally qualified
PhD applicants (top 10% in class, >85% GPA, excellent English command) are
welcome to contact potential faculty supervisors and apply by Dec 1, 2009.
This fellowship award is offered centrally by University Grant Council of
Hong Kong.

We also offer a large number of postgraduate research studentship awards at
HK$156,000 per year (~USD 20,000/year). Our admission requirement for
English is one of recent TOEFL(cbt)>=580, IELTS>=7, or TOEFL(ibt)>=92 by the
time you enter HKUST. Applicants can send application material to our PG
program at any time, but preferably before March 15, 2010. More information
is available at (http://www.cse.ust.hk/pg/), or write: pgadmin@cse.ust.hk.

You can learn more about our Postgraduate Programs at (
http://www.cse.ust.hk/pg/) and see where our PhD graduates go at (
http://www.cse.ust.hk/pg/ourgraduates/).