{"id":3553,"date":"2015-02-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/msr_er\/2015\/02\/20\/2015-microsoft-research-phd-scholarship-projects-announced\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T07:29:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T14:29:28","slug":"2015-microsoft-research-phd-scholarship-projects-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/2015-microsoft-research-phd-scholarship-projects-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship projects announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/labs\/cambridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Research Cambridge<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> has long engaged in collaboration with academic researchers through research projects, Joint Research Centers, internships, and event sponsorships.&nbsp; As part of this, the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/phdscholarship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, has, since 2004, awarded annual grants to fund more than 200 academic research projects in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region. The project proposals are submitted by PhD supervisors, who then collaborate with an assigned Microsoft Research co-supervisor to support a PhD student for up to three years, as he or she carries out the proposed research project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;\">We are pleased to announce that 19 PhD projects, split across six EMEA countries, have been selected for 2015 scholarships and will receive funding and collaborative assistance, starting in the academic year 2015&ndash;2016. Among these were seven proposals that grew out of our ongoing collaborations with University College London and Edinburgh University (see <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/msr_er\/archive\/2013\/01\/30\/initiative-celebrates-industry-academia-collaboration.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Initiative Celebrates Industry-Academia Collaboration<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>; <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/msr_er\/archive\/2011\/10\/12\/sound-the-bagpipes-joint-initiative-in-informatics-announced.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Sound the Bagpipes: Joint Initiative in Informatics Announced<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;\">Below is a list of the selected projects, including the PhD supervisor and the institution:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>ByPASS: Building Programming Abstractions for Packet Processing on CPUs, Graphics PR<br \/> <\/strong>Evangelos Markatos, FORTH-ICS, Greece\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Designing for Spatial Sharing &#8211; Architectural Thinking as an Approach to Technology Design<br \/> <\/strong>Marianne Graves Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Designing the Design of the Internet of Things<br \/> <\/strong>Ashley Hall, Royal College of Art, UK\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Fast, Flexible and Functional Software<br \/> <\/strong>Anil Madhavapeddy, University of Cambridge, UK\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Global Fitness Maximising Approaches to Evaluate the Trade-Offs Involved in the Evergreen and Deciduous Conundrum<br \/> <\/strong>Peter van Bodegom, Leiden University, the Netherlands\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>History-Aware Testing<br \/> <\/strong>Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Model Worlds &#8211; Interacting with Machines which Read the Future<br \/> <\/strong>James Auger, Royal College of Art, UK\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Preference Elicitation and Mechanism Design for Complex Dynamic Systems<br \/> <\/strong>Sven Seuken, University of Zurich, Switzerland\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Real World Data with Dependent Types: Integrity and Interoperation<br \/> <\/strong>Conor McBride, University of Strathclyde, UK\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Reasoning about Racy Programs under Relaxed Consistency<br \/> <\/strong>Susmit Sarkar, University of St Andrews, UK\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Safe, Natural, and Efficient Probabilistic Programming<br \/> <\/strong>Frank Wood, University of Oxford, UK\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Sequential Structured Prediction<br \/> <\/strong>Peter Gehler, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;\">Joint Initiative with University College London:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Capture of Real-World Non-Rigid Scenes from a Single RGB Camera <br \/> <\/strong>Lourdes Agapito\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Constructing Robust Synthetic Gene Feedback Systems using a Combined Experimental and Bayesian Approach<br \/> <\/strong>Chris Barnes\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Controlled Malleability in Cryptography<br \/> <\/strong>Sarah Meiklejohn\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Image Quality Transfer<br \/> <\/strong>Daniel Alexander<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;\">Joint Initiative with Informatics with University of Edinburgh:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Formal Decompositions of Strongly Coupled Systems<\/strong><br \/>Vincent Danos\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>Self-Optimising Internet Services<\/strong><br \/>Hugh Leather\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><strong>System-Level Support for Persistent Memory<br \/> <\/strong>Stratis Viglas<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;\">You can learn more about these projects on the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/collaboration\/global\/phd_projects2015.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">2015 projects page<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;\">PhD supervisors are actively recruiting for these projects; candidate selection should be complete by the end of March 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;\">We&rsquo;d like to thank all of this year&rsquo;s applicants, and we&rsquo;re looking forward to September 1, 2015, when the submission tool for the 2016 applications will open. Remember, no researcher is an island, especially when it comes to applying computer science for the benefit of society. <\/span><br \/> &nbsp;<br \/><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;\"> <em>&mdash;Dr. Daron Green, Director, Microsoft Research <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/collaboration\/global\/phd_projects2015.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Selected PhD Projects &ndash; 2015<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/collaboration\/global\/apply-europe.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">PhD Scholarship in EMEA<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/collaboration\/global\/scholars.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">PhD Projects and PhD Scholars<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/labs\/cambridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Research Cambridge<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: small;\"><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/collaboration\/awards\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">More opportunities for researchers<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Research Cambridge has long engaged in collaboration with academic researchers through research projects, Joint Research Centers, internships, and event sponsorships.&nbsp; As part of this, the Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship Programme, has, since 2004, awarded annual grants to fund more than 200 academic research projects in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region. 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