Academic

Postgraduate PhD Research Scholarship in Data Mining

Division of Information and Communication Sciences Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia

A postgraduate research scholarship is available in the Department of Computing at Macquarie University, Sydney. The title of the project is Data Minining and Constraint Satisfaction in aid of Decision Support Systems. This project will investigate ways to incorporate data mining and knowledge discovery techniques in decision support systems.

Applicants should have completed, or expect to complete within the year, a four year undergraduate degree in Science with first class honours, or an equivalent qualification with a background in some of the following areas: computing, statistics, mathematics.

The successful applicant if an Australian citizen/permanent resident, or a New Zealand citizen, would receive a RAACE award; other International applicants would receive an iMURS award. The stipend for the award is currently $18,837 per annum, tax exempt, and the tenure is 3 years full time subject to satisfactory progress.

Further information on the project may be obtained by emailing Dr Lee Flax, flax@ics.mq.edu.au phone +61 (0)2 9850 9568.

Application forms, and conditions for RAACE/iMURS awards, are available from the

Higher Degree Research Unit by phoning +61 (0)2 9850 7987, by e-mailing pgschol@mq.edu.au or by downloading from www.ro.mq.edu.au/hdru/scholar.htm.

Applications should be forwarded to:
The Scholarships Officer
Higher Degree Research Unit
Cottage C4C
Macquarie University
NSW 2109
AUSTRALIA

The scholarship is available now and will be open until end of August 2006.