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Jointly funded scholarships

The CSIR/UCT scholarships are now open. The scholarship is only open to UCT students who will have the pre-requisite degree before next year. The awarded amounts are: R60k for Hons; R70k for masters; and R80k for PhD.

Here is the list of UCT scholarship fields for Meraka Institute under the category ICT:

  1. Cloud Computing

  2. High Performance Computing:
    • Computational modelling (including computational modelling for finance and economics)
    • Numerical algorithms
    • Computer graphics
    • Computer engineering

  3. Human Language Technologies:
    • Speech processing (speech synthesis, automatic speech recognition, speaker verification)
    • Text processing
    • Natural language processing
    • Spoken dialog systems and interactive voice response systems
    • Linguistic aspects of SA languages relevant to speech technology (eg tone and intonation)
    • Telephony platforms
    • Statistical pattern recognition
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Machine learning

Further information can be obtained at the following link or by contacting Olivia Barron (021) 650 3622 for application forms and procedures.

   
   
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