Engineering | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 272

Facebook Fellowship Program 2011-2012, USA

We are interested in a wide range of academic topics, including the following topical areas:

* Computational Advertising
* Computer Vision
* Compiler Technology
* Computer Architecture
* Computer Networking
* Computer Security
* Databases
* Data Mining
* Distributed Computing
* Fault Tolerance
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Internet Economics
* Machine Learning
* Machine Translation
* Natural Language Processing
* Search
* Smart Datacenters
* Social Computing

Eligibility Criteria

* Full-time Ph.D. students in topical areas represented by these fellowships who are currently involved in on-going research.
* Students must be studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, System Architecture, or a related area.
* Students must be enrolled during the academic year that the Fellowship is awarded.
* Students must be nominated by a faculty member.

Selection Criteria

* Eligibility of applicant.
* Quality of application.
* Applicability of the project or study to Facebook.
* Other criteria as decided by Facebook in its sole discretion. Facebook complies with all equal opportunity laws.

Fellowship Application Deadline: February 28, 2011
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Postdoctoral Research Associate Positions in Shenzhen University, China

We invite young persons under the age of 40 with a Ph. D. degree in physics or electrical engineering to join us as postdoctoral research associates in our laboratory for a period of two years. The postdoctoral research associates will do researches in photonic-crystal devices and metamaterial devices. The salary for those postdoctoral research associates is 21,000 US dollars per year. Those who are interested please send their C.V. to Prof. Dr. Zhengbiao Ouyang, whose contact information is as follows: Prof. Zhengbiao Ouyang, College of Electronic Science and Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; e-mail: zbouyang-at-szu.edu.cn

About Shenzhen Univeristy:
Shenzhen University (SZU) is a full-time comprehensive university accredited by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China and is funded in 1983. Located on the picturesque coastline of Shenzhen Bay in South China, SZU has a campus of 1.44 square kilometers. SZU now has 23 colleges, providing 65 undergraduate programs, 70 Master programs and 3 doctorate programs. It has 15 key science and engineering laboratories and 4 humanities and social sciences research centers. The university faculty is comprised of 1,506 teachers and researchers; 346 professors, 568 associate professors. The on-campus student body is 28,000 strong. There are 920 international students from over 40 countries sharing the SZU experience.

Contact address : Prof. Zhengbiao Ouyang, College of Electronic Sci. & Tech., Shenzhen University, Nanhai Ave 3688, Nanshan, Shenzhen 518060, China

Scholarship Application Deadline: Contact Employer

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Openings for Internships, Graduate Studentship and Postdoctoral Research Positions, SMART, Singapore

We are recruiting students and postdocs for projects within the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology (SMART), to be supervised by MIT and NTU faculty. In those projects we apply mathematical engineering to problems in bioengineering and biochemistry, for example:

o Bayesian modeling of parasitic life cycle
o large-scale graphical models for functional genomics
o stochastic modeling and control engineering in the context of tissue generation.

-Information on  living in Singapore;
– Information about the research in the lab.

Please send detailed curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, three references, and relevant publications (if applicable) electronically to:

Prof. Justin Dauwels
Nanyang Technological University
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Singapore
recruitment-at-dauwels.com

Scholarship Application Deadline: March 2011

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