The PhD Program offers up to 20 fellowships.
Application Period
There are three application periods for 2012-2013:
First application period: January 17th, 2012 to March 15th, 2012
Second application period: March 16th, 2012 to May 16th, 2012
Third application period: May 17th, 2012 to June 29th, 2012
Early applications are very much encouraged. In particular, we highly recommend candidates coming from outside the EU to apply before the last Application Period. The notification will be posted at the DTIC url within 45 days from the end of each application period.
How to apply:
• Fulfill the application form properly signed.
• Submit the application form (in pdf. format) by e-mail to secretaria.dtic@upf.edu
The fellowship begins the 1st of October.
Type of Fellowships:
The Department offers two types of scholarships: both of them cover the tuition fees (except the administrative rates).
- RDI Grant: Includes some teaching assistance (40 hours) and research tasks. Monthly wage: 587.10€ + extra amount founded by the research project
- PhD Grant: Includes teaching assistance tasks (60 hours). Monthly wage: 981.44€
Although it is not necessary to be accepted to the TIC PhD program at the time of grant application only candidates accepted to the program are eligible a fellowship. Hence, every fellowship application should be paired up with an admission application into the TIC PhD program. Admission to the DTIC program is handled by the university admission office. Please have a look here for information about the admission procedure.
The
Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat
Pompeu Fabra offers Ph.D. programs in the following research areas:
COGNITIVE AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
- Cognition and Computation (Research Group: SPECS - Responsible faculty: Dr. Paul Verschure
- Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Computer Science (Research Group: AI - Responsible faculty: Dr. Hector Geffner)
- Natural Language Processing (Research Group: TALN - Responsible faculty: Dr. Leo Wanner)
- Ubiquitous Computing (Faculty: Rafael Pous: rafael.pous at upf.edu)
- Information Retrieval and Data Mining (Research Group WRG- Responsible faculty: Dr. Ricardo Baeza)
- Cognitive Multimedia Technologies (Research Group: CMTECH - Responsible faculty: Dr. Xavier Binefa)
AUDIOVISUAL TECHNOLOGIES
- Image Processing and Computer Vision (Research Group: GPI- Responsible faculty: Dr. Vicent Caselles and Individual Faculty: Marcelo BertalmÃo)
- Sound and Music Computing (Research Group: MTG - Responsible faculty: Dr. Xavier Serra)
- Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Educational Technologies (Researcg Group: GTI - Responsible faculty: Dr. Josep Blat)
NETWORKS AND COMMUNICATIONS
- Technologies and Protocols for Wireless Networks (Research Group: NETS- Responsible faculty: Dr. Miquel Oliver)
- Wireless Communications (Research Group: WICOM- Responsible faculty: Dr. Angel Lozano)
- Information Theory and Coding (Research Group: ITC)
- Fixed Networks (Responsible faculty: Dra. Dolors Sala)
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS
- Computational Neuroscience (Research Group: CNS - Responsible faculty: Dr. Gustavo Deco)
- Instrumentation and Biomedical Signals (Faculty: Antoni Ivorra)
- Computational Imaging and Computational Physiology (Research Group: CISTIB- Responsible faculty: Dr. Alejandro Frangi)
- Analysis of Biomedical Data (Faculty: Bart Bijnens: bart.bijnens at upf.edu)
If the
applicant's background in the selected research line is not strong
enough, he/she should concurrently apply to one of the Master programs
offered by the Department (Masters of the DTIC). In addition, the
Graduate Studies Committee of the Department or the Ph.D. supervisor may
request that a student enrolls in specific Master courses.
The
Ph.D. program includes attendance to a research seminar series with
weekly talks featuring invited speakers and dealing with topics of
interest to the aforementioned research lines.
REQUIRED COURSES
All first-year Ph.D. students must enroll and pass these two mandatory courses:
- Research seminars. Year-long series of weekly technical talks.
- Presentation of the Ph.D. Thesis Proposal. It consists of a public examination where the student presents his/her thesis proposal to a committee of faculty from the department. While not strictly a course, the student is expected to work on the proposal for the entire year. The examination takes place at the end of the 3rd trimester.
Once these courses have been passed, the student is expected to work full-time on his/her thesis.
Once the
thesis proposal has been approved, full-time Ph.D. students have three
years to finish their thesis. Part-time students have 5 years to present
their thesis, but they are not eligible for most scholarships.
Admission, Quality control, Thesis Defence, etc.
General information on doctoral programs at UPF: UPF Doctoral Programmes
Department of Information and Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Roc Boronat, 138 (Tanger Building)
Office 55.205 - 2nd. floor
08018 Barcelona
Spain
Tel: (34) 93-542 / 2927/ 2325
Fax: (34) 93-542 25 17
email: secretaria.dtic@upf.edu
Further Information
Application Deadline : 29 June 2012
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