An innovative programme that will contract 700 postgraduate students: an opportunity to do your thesis in top institutions in Ireland

Today we received excellent news, the call for “SFI Centres for Research Training Programme“, extraordinarily well managed by the Science Foundation Ireland, has been approved.

Six of the projects that participated in the call have been selected. This programme will allow to recruit 700 technology specialists on long-term contracts. Those specialists will complete their doctoral thesis in each of the 6 new inter-university doctoral schools created within the framework of this call and funded by the Irish government.

http://www.sfi.ie/research-news/news/sfi-humphreys-halligan/

ICT themes

Future Networks
Communications and Internet of Things
Data Analytics, Management
Security, Privacy
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (including Machine Learning)
Digital Platforms
Content and Applications
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.

It has been a pleasure for me to be part of the evaluation panel of the proposals and to see how 6 of them have triumphed. This programme will make Ireland proud and it will give a lot of opportunities to students who want to study in this country, within this framework of very competitive programmes run by universities and top research centres.

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Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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