Interested in doing a PhD in the Smyth Group?

Interested in graduate study? I am always interested in enthusiastic students who wish to pursue a PhD in my research areas of interest, particularly students with a sound mathematical background who are interested in a mix of theory and application in the general area of machine learning.

Most of our projects involve modeling of real-world data sets involving text, time series, images, multivariate data from areas as diverse as text mining, Web data analysis, medical image analysis, bioinformatics, atmospheric science, remote sensing, and cognitive science. In addition, on the more theoretical side, we like to explore fundamental aspects of learning from data including mathematical and probabilistic analysis of learning algorithms and development of efficient algorithms especially for large data sets.

PhD students in my group tend to come from a diverse range of backgrounds. Students in my group in the past have had undergraduate degrees in mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, physics, and economics. A computer science undergraduate degree is not a strict requirement to join my group or to get a PhD in the department (some extra coursework may be involved for students who are missing some of the required background). I have joint faculty appointments in the departments of Statistics and in Biomedical Engineering, so I can also act as PhD advisor for graduate students in those departments.

Here's how I suggest you can explore whether doing a PhD with my group would be a good match with your interests.

If you have specific questions about doing a Phd in my research group, you can email me, but I should advise you that I regularly get quite a large number of email inquiries about joining my group and its impossible for me to reply to everyone's email!



Last modified: July 2011