Doctoral Programme in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (d-real)

Updated: over 2 years ago
Location: Ireland,
Job Type: FullTime
Deadline: 19 Aug 2021

Last call for positions on doctoral programme in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (d-real).

  • Rolling deadline, last call closing at 17.00 (Irish time) on Thursday 19th August 2021
  • 7 places on programme, starting in September/October 2021
  • Fully-funded 4-year programme, across five universities in Ireland
  • Team of over 110 supervisors
  • Based in Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, NUI Galway, Technological University Dublin and University College Dublin
  • Tax-free stipend of €18,500
  • Generous funding for conference travel, equipment, training, placement maintenance and publication costs
  • Join our multi-disciplinary cohort of 30 students who will pursue their PhDs as part of an innovative cohort group working in the cutting edge of digital media technology
  • Industry-linked programme, with placement of a minimum of three months with an industry partner

Topic titles

2021TCD03: Procedural Generation of Narrative Puzzles

2021TCD07: Making Chatbots more personalised: Personalisation for AI driven Conversational Digital Assistants

2021TUD04: Controllable Consistent Timbre Synthesis

2019TUD05: Linked geospatial data supporting Digitally Enhanced Realities

2021UCD04: Annotated lip reading for Augmented Educational Systems

2021UCD05: Data Aware Design: A Human-Data Interaction Framework to Promote User Agency

2021UCD07: Could you please repeat that? Deep learning non-native speech patterns

Funding

Each student who is admitted to this programme will receive a full scholarship to undertake a four-year structured PhD programme. This scholarship comprises full payment of university fees for four years and a tax-free stipend of €18,500 per annum for four years. In addition, a generous budget for conference travel, equipment, training, placement maintenance and publication costs is provided.

Programme

All students will be members of a cohort of 30, working across a number of disciplines in the area of digital media. The cohort will be brought together for training activities throughout the four years, across all five institutions. Training will focus on disciplinary skills, master classes and transferable skills. Graduates will develop the skills necessary to work in industry or academia.

Students will be hired on specific projects, as detailed on our website. Each student will have a supervisor in their ‘home’ institution and a secondary supervisor from among the 110 supervisors in the d-real programme. This supervisory system encourages collaboration across the institutions, giving the student the opportunity to draw on expert knowledge across the programme.

Digitally-Enhanced Reality

Whether via multimodal devices such as smart phones, embedded displays and IoT, or virtual assistants and VR/AR experiences, media technology is revolutionising the way we interact, collaborate and behave. d-real PhD students will develop skills for next generation human-centric media technology, including:

  • Machine intelligence-based sensing and understanding of digital content and information;
  • Its transformation and personalisation;
  • Its multimodal interaction and delivery via speech, text, video, image and VR/AR; and
  • Its impactful application in multiple industry and societal settings.

Application process

Applicants should visit the d-real website here and look through the list of the open positions on the programme here . They should then complete an application form. Applicants will be asked to fill out details of their education record, employment history and to select their top three PhD topic preferences from the list of projects.

Requirements

The minimum requirements for entry into the programme are:

2.1 grade (or equivalent) in an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in computer science, maths, engineering or similar technical discipline. Other qualifications in disciplines related to listed PhD topics will also be considered.

Strong programming/technical ability.

Non-native English speakers require at least IELTS 6.5 (with at least 6 in all components) or equivalent.



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