HPI Research: Call for scholarships
Applications are open for prospective PhD students in Information Systems or Computer Science to join the HPI Research School at UCT.
The Hasso-Plattner Institute (HPI) Research School at University of Cape Town, affiliated with the School of Information Technology at the University of Cape Town, annually grants new PhD scholarships to qualifying students from the African continent in the fields of Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS). We seek high quality applications centred on ideas that revolve around proposing and evaluating solutions to problems of computer science and information systems that emerge in the African context.
Support is available for the research work of PhD candidates with the supervisors of the research school:
- Irwin Brown (IS) > ICT Innovations in Organisations and Society, and IS Management
- Josiah Chavula (CS) > Network Measurements, Performance Engineering and Software Defined Networking
- Melissa Densmore (CS) > Human-Computer Interaction
- Brian DeRenzi (CS) > Human-Computer Interaction
- James Gain (CS) > Collaborative Visual Computing
- Maria Keet (CS) > Knowledge Engineering
- Michelle Kuttel (CS) > High-Performance Computing and Visualisation
- David Johnson (CS) > Wireless Community Networks, Dynamic Spectrum Access
- Tommie Meyer (CS) > Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Deshen Moodley (CS) > Adaptive and Cognitive Systems
- Ulrike Rivett (IS) > iCOMMS – Community Services
- Lisa Seymour (IS) > Enterprise Systems, Business Process Management, IS Education, ICT4D
- Hussein Suleman (CS) > Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, and Educational Technology
- Jean-Paul van Belle (IS) > ICT4D, D4D, emerging tech