17 May 2021

NRF Call [Honours and MSc] for 2022 Students @ DSFSI

We are seeking interested students who would like to apply for 2022 positions in our group and also NRF fellowships See NRF website for information

2 x students for 2022 Honours in CS
- Likely topics NLP, Interpretable NLP, Data Science infrastructure, Interpretable ML (not exhaustive)
2 x students for 2022 MSc in CS
- Likely topics NLP, Local Language NLP, Interpretable NLP, Data Science infrastructure, Interpretable ML (not exhaustive)

ELIGIBILITY

We are specifically targeting these fellowships [You must be a full-time student in 2022]

NRF Honours Scholarships (for South Africans and Permanent Residents ONLY)
NRF First Time Masters and Doctoral Scholarships (Freestanding, Innovation and Scarce Skills) (for South Africans; Permanent Residents and limited percentage of foreign nationals)

Focus

The Data Science for Social Impact research group focuses on Natural Language Processing, Data Science and Machine learning. You can learn more on our website https://dsfsi.github.io/ and specifically see our publications for recent work https://dsfsi.github.io/publications/.

Internal DSFSI Closing Date.

For those who are interested in applying for the above, you need to send your email expressing interest by 4 June 2021 to vukosi.marivate@cs.up.ac.za, subject: “NRF 2022 Expression of Interest.”

You must send( as attachments)

a short CV [View our GUIDE on this page https://dsfsi.github.io/prospective/ ],
and a short note [not longer than 1 page] on your research interest area or short proposed topic.

Note : Applications after the above mentioned closing date will not be considered.