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The call for admission to PhD programme in

MODELING AND DATA SCIENCE - University of Torino https://dottorato-mds.campusnet.unito.it/do/home.pl

(Coordinator: Prof.Laura Sacerdote)

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We offer up to 5 PhD positions (one is reserved to candidates with international qualifications and one is reserved to the project no.9, see below) for up to 3 years.

Annual amount of the PhD scholarship is € 17.500 according to DM 40/2019. This sum is subject to separate I.N.P.S. welfare contributions.

Course start date is November 1st, 2019. The official language is English.

The positions are assigned to specific research projects within the following list:

1. A multi-agent system (MAS) approach to model news spreading 2. A multi-agent system (MAS) modelisation of the mobility by public transport in the City of Turin 3. Quickest detection and failure time problems for industrial data 4. Machine learning in public health 5. Time changed multivariate stochastic models: calibration and fit on financial data. 6. Computable inference for hidden Markov models with orthogonal polynomial eigenstructure 7. Parallel programming models for modern applications: AI and Big Data 8. Privacy-preserving machine learning in complex domains 9. Algorithms and techniques for analyzing vast non-specialized textual corpora in order to extract complex features relevant to conceptual history and the history of argumentation. (research project linked to the scholarship funded by Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell’Educazione – excellence Department research)

This list may be updated until the deadline of Call for Admission to PhD positions. Updates will be published on https://en.unito.it/postdegree/phd/modeling-and-data-science.

Application fee is €50.00 for each application submitted. Candidates with international qualifications are exempted from paying the application fee.

Applications must be submitted within 16th April 2019 at 12.00 (noon) Central European local time (which is also the fee mandatory deadline). Application may be integrated with additional documentation within the deadline 16th April 2019 at 12.00 (noon) Central European local time.

For more details about the research projects as well as the formal application criteria, see

https://en.unito.it/postdegree/phd/modeling-and-data-science

The admission procedure consists in assessment of qualifications, research project and interview. The interview will include questions on applied mathematics, statistics and computer science together with a discussion on the proposed project. The interview, after prior authorization by the Commission, can be performed telematically.

Schedule with information on dates and venues of entrance examinations will be published on the websites: http://en.unito.it/research/phd/phd-programmes, starting from 9th April 2019.