28 PhD positions in Digital Media Technology
PhD positions in Digital Media Technology
Ireland
Scholarship: Full payment of university fees 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.
Positions: These 28 positions are being advertised as part of the Science Foundation Ireland-funded Centre for Research Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (d-real). Successful applicants will form a cohort-based doctoral programme involving five leading universities in Ireland –Dublin City University, NUI Galway, Trinity College Dublin, Technological University Dublin and University College Dublin
About the programme: Multimodal digital media, across video, text, image, speech and Virtual/Augmented Reality (VR/AR) content, are rapidly reshaping our working and living environments. Seamlessly blending digital media and interaction within the physical world offers disruptive potential to enhance our effectiveness, efficiency and quality of engagement in everyday life. The d-real programme is an innovative, industry partnered, research training programme that equips PhD students with deep ICT knowledge and skills across Digital Platform Technology, Content and Media Technology and their application in Industry sectors. d-real postgraduate students will make research breakthroughs in areas such as multimodal interaction, multimodal digital assistants, multilingual speech processing, real-time multilingual translation and interaction, machine intelligence for video analytics and multimodal personalisation and agency.
Topics: The d-real website lists the 28 available projects, giving details on the supervision team and a brief descriptor of the scope of the PhD position.
Application procedure: Applications are to be made using the form provided on our ‘Apply to d-real’ webpage. You will be asked for personal details, academic track record, a personal statement and to list your top three topic preferences.
Deadline: Rolling deadline, second call closing at 17.00 (Irish time) on Wednesday 22nd April 2021.
Queries: For queries about the programme please contact the programme manager, Stephen.Carroll@d-real.ie. For queries about the projects themselves please contact the primary supervisor of the particular project.