The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Hong Kong UST is 
recruiting PhD students to start in Fall 2011. We are looking for 
outstanding undergraduate students as well as outstanding graduate students 
with Masters 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 
(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 3-5 years, and an undergraduate degree to graduate in 5-7 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 with a limited quota. 
Exceptionally qualified PhD applicants (top 10% in class, >85% GPA, 
excellent English command) are welcome to contact potential faculty 
supervisors and the HKPFS 2011/12 will call for applications in September 
2010.Please visit HKPFS website (http://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html) 
for details. 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. Tuition fee at HKUST is around HK$42,100 per 
year. 

We are recruiting in two phases. Our first phase, which has already 
started, is an early recruiting session which is targeted for PhD 
applicants through telephone or onsite interviews. To qualify, please send 
your CV to pgrecruit@cse.ust.hk AND ALSO fill out the preliminary 
application form at http://www.cse.ust.hk/pg/admissions/registration/ for 
preliminary screening. We don’t have a specific deadline, but we have a 
limited quota and therefore applicants are considered on a first-come-
first-serve basis.  

Therefore, please try your best to apply AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

After the early recruiting session, applicants can still send regular 
application packages to HKUST Postgraduate Admissions 
(https://www.ab.ust.hk/arr/adm/pg/admissions/RPG/RPG.html) at any time 
before mid-March, 2011. Please visit HKUST Postgraduate Admissions website 
to find out the application deadline. We also accept a limited number of 
applications to self-financed MPhil program 
(http://www.cse.ust.hk/pg/admissions/self-financed/). Please indicate your 
application clearly if you are interested in the MPhil program.

You can learn more about our PhD program through our department website and 
especially you can check “Where do Our PhD Graduates Go” 
section(http://www.cse.ust.hk/pg/ourgraduates/).

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact 
pgrecruit@cse.ust.hk.

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