PhD scholarships at the University of Strathclyde 2025
The Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde is welcoming applications for PhD studentships. At least four fully funded positions are available for UK home students, and funding covers tuition fees, a stipend for living expenses, and a small travel budget. Unfortunately, the funding provided is not enough for non-UK tuition fees.
Applicants in the area of the Mathematically Structured Programming (MSP) Group are strongly encouraged to apply. Within MSP, we see the mathematical foundations of computation and programming as inextricably linked, and study one so as to develop the other. This reflects the symbiotic relationship between mathematics, logic, and programming — any attempt to sever this connection will diminish each component.
If you are interested in applying, please contact a potential supervisor as soon as possible, and before 25th November 2024. Potential supervisors in the group are:
- Guillaume Allais: type-driven programming, correct-by-construction methodology, implementations of type theory, generic programming, proof automation, user experience of interactive compilers.
- Robert Atkey: type theory and computational complexity, resource awareness in logic and programming languages, substructural logics, applications of mathematical structure to programming language design, domain specific languages for specification and verification.
- Neil Ghani: category theory, type theory, functional programming, game theory, machine learning.
- Jules Hedges: applications of category theory, type theory, functional programming, ... in economics, machine learning, statistics, control, ...
- Ross Horne: concurrency and logic, and their applications to analysing threats to security and privacy.
- Clemens Kupke: coalgebraic modelling of systems, logical verification/model-checking, fixpoint logics and their game-theoretic semantics, automata theory and automata learning.
- Conor Mc Bride: dependent type theory, functional programming, effects and handlers, programming language design and metatheory, and the category theoretic underpinnings of all of the above.
- Jan de Muijnck-Hughes: trustworthy systems using type-driven approaches; namely applications of type theory, dependently typed functional programming, and programming (& domain specific) language design and metatheory.
- Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg: dependent type theory, especially homotopy type theory, and its semantics and applications, constructive mathematics, categorical semantics of programming languages.
