> 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.
>