Ten 4-year PhD studentships at Oxford and WarwickTen 4-year PhD studentships at Oxford and Warwick

OxWaSP (The Oxford-Warwick Statistics Programme)

10 funded PhD studentships available in Statistical Science, 5 each at Oxford and Warwick

The Statistics Department – University of Oxford (http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/) and the Statistics Department – University Of Warwick (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/), supported by the EPSRC, will run a joint Centre of Doctoral Training in the theory, methods and applications of Statistical Science for 21st Century data-intensive environments and large-scale models. This is the first centre of its type in the world and will equip its students to work in an area in growing demand both in academia and industry.

Each year from October 2014 OxWaSP will recruit at least 5 students attached to Warwick and at least 5 attached to Oxford. Each student will be funded with a grant for four years of study. Students spend the first year at Oxford developing advanced skills in statistical science. In the first two terms students are given research training through modular courses: Statistical Inference in Complex Models; Multivariate Stochastic Processes; Bayesian Analyses for Complex Structural Information; Machine Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models; Stochastic Computation for Intractable Inference. In the third term, students carry out two small research projects. At the end of year 1, students begin a three-year research project with a chosen supervisor, five continuing at Oxford and five moving to the University of Warwick.

Training in years 2-4 includes annual retreats, workshops and a research course in machine learning at Amazon (Berlin). There are funded opportunities for students to work with our leading industrial partners and to travel in their third year to an international summer placement in some of the strongest Statistics groups in the USA, Europe and Asia including UC Berkeley, Columbia University, Duke University, the University of Washington in Seattle, ETH Zurich and NUS Singapore.

Applications will be considered in gathered fields with the next deadline of 24 January 2014 (Non-EU applicants should apply by this date to maximise their chance of funding). Interviews for successful applicants who submit by the January deadline will take place at the end of February 2014. There will be a second deadline for applications at the end of February (Warwick) and 14th March (Oxford). For further information on applying to the programme at one or both of the two institutions see

Oxford
Web: www.graduate.ox.ac.uk/oxwasp
Email: oxwasp.admissions@stats.ox.ac.uk

Warwick
Web: www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/oxwasp
Email: oxwasp@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Geoff Nicholls
Department of Statistics, Head of Department St Peter’s College, Fellow in Statistics University of Oxford