The Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) is a collaboration between the Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS). The PhD training will be carried out at labs at A*STAR Research Institutes (RIs), NTU or NUS. Upon successful completion, students will be conferred a PhD degree by either NTU or NUS.

ELIGIBILITY

*Open to all international students
*Graduate with a passion for research and excellent academic results
*Good skills in written and spoken English
*Good reports from academic referees

COVERAGE AND AWARD TERMS

Successful candidates will be given support for up to 4 years of academic pursuit, leading to a PhD degree. Successful candidates will receive:

*Full tuition fees
*Monthly stipend of $2000 and will be increased to $2500 upon confirmation
*One-time $1000 settling-in allowance
*One-time airfare grant of $1500

AREAS OF INTEREST

Research areas under the PhD Programme fall broadly under two categories:
#Biomedical Sciences; and
#Physical Science and Engineering

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants are to submit their application using the online application form and post the printed copy of the completed application form together with all supporting documents to the following address.

Attention: Jeremy Ng
Agency for Science, Technology And Research
A*STAR Graduate Academy
20 Biopolis Way
#07-01 Centros
Singapore 138668

Please do not send applications directly to NTU. For further enquiries on the scholarship, please e-mail to Ms Jessica Wee, JessicaWee@ntu.edu.sg.

Nanyang Technology University

We invite applications for 2 fully funded PhD scholarships to the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore to undertake research work in the area of speech and language processing. We hope the student can enroll for the program during the 2009 January or 2009 August intake.
Areas of particular interest are
Multi-lingual speech recognition
Robust speech recognition
Speaker recognition
Large-vocabulary automatic speech recognition
Spoken document retrieval
Computational phonetics and phonology

Applicants should have a good honors or Masters Degree in EEE, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or Mathematics. Experience in pattern recognition, natural language processing, audio and speech signal processing or speech/speaker recognition is a plus.
Details of the application procedure and scholarship can be found in:
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/gradstudies/Research+Programmes/Fees+and+Financial+Assistance/

If you are keen to apply to the scholarships, kindly send an email to Chng Eng Siong aseschng@ntu.edu.sg to discuss your research proposal, and confirm that we are willing to be your supervisor and support your application. Please submit a complete academic CV and a paragraph describing your intended field of study or suggested project proposal.
Li Haizhou (Adjunct Assoc Professor, SCE, NTU)
http://www1.i2r.a-star.edu.sg/~hli/
Chng Eng Siong (Asst Professor, SCE, NTU)
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/aseschng/

PhD scholarship in Speech and Language Processing School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore,