2019 PhD Student Openings in Applied Machine Learning and Bioinformatics at CityU(HK)

Each Fellowship recipient will receive financial award in the amount of USD169,200 for the 4-year PhD study.  The financial award consists of CYC SGS Entrance Scholarship (which covers the tuition and on-campus hostel fees in the first year

of research study), and a monthly stipend and a conference and research-related travel allowance.  Students with outstanding academic progress in their later years of study may receive a Research Tuition Scholarship to cover their full tuition fees.

The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme will invite applications for 2019 entry from 1 September – 1 December 2018 (12.00.00 GMT +8 hours

). The key milestones and application procedures are as follows:

Step 1:

Applicants should first submit an initial application at the RGC's Online Application System (OAS) () to obtain a RGC reference number (RGC’s deadline: 1 December 2018 [12.00.00 GMT +8 hours]).

Step 2:

Applicants are then required to submit full application, together with supporting documents, to CityU's

Online Admission System , and quote the RGC reference number (CityU’s deadline: 1 December 2018).

Please put down "Ka-Chun Wong" as your potentialsupervisorin your applications (i.e. please type "Ka-Chun Wong" in the question "If you have contact any CityU academic staff member, pleaseprovide his/her fullname." in the Other Information section in the CityU(HK) graduate school application system); otherwise, your applications may not reach us.

Announcement of Fellowship results by the RGC: March 2019

Firm admission offer with regular postgraduate studentship will be given to selected CityU’s nominees, even if they are not awarded the Fellowship by the RGC. The admission offer will be confirmed by the University in January 2019.