Fully Funded Doctoral Studentship in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Posted: 24th September 2010

The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR) Group is offering a fully funded D.Phil studentship in Oxford University's Computing Laboratory. This position is associated with the QueRe project, under the supervision of Professor Ian Horrocks . The goal of the project is to design practically effective query answering algorithms for more expressive ontology languages with features such as transitivity and equality, and to demonstrate that advanced information systems based on such languages can be effectively deployed in applications. The project covers a broad range of topics including logic, ontologies, databases and the semantic web.

The QueRe team will be led by Professor Horrocks and will include Dr Boris Motik and Dr Peter Patel-Schneider of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs. The team will also work closely with other members of the KRR group and with other projects, in particular the ExODA project.

The studentship is fully funded and is available immediately but with a start date no later than October 1st 2011. The studentship includes a stipend of at least £13,590 per year as well as provision for travel to conferences.

Candidates must satisfy the usual admission requirements for studying for a doctorate at Oxford. In addition, the students should be skilled in theoretical computer science and in some of the above-mentioned areas, and must have good writing, communication, presentation, and organization skills.

Applications can be made online here:

https://apply.embark.com/grad/Oxford/14/

When applying for these studentships, please quote the following studentship codes: 11-COMP-IH-WEB (if you are applying from ComLab web pages) or 11-COMP-IH-JOBS (if you are applying via jobs.ac.uk) or

11-COMP-FIND (if you saw the advert on Findaphd.com)

Closing date for receipt of applications is 31st December, 2010

If you have any questions about the studentship or application process please email Julie.sheppard@comlab.ox.ac.uk