Apply by sending an e-mail with subject "COINMAC Application" to Jim Tørresen with copy to kaiolae@ifi.uio.no and kyrrehg@ifi.uio.no
16 October at the latest with (all in English language):
- A cover letter indicating what topic, lab and country (and institution) you would be most interested in for an exchange scholarship for doing a master project and why you are motivated to do your master abroad. Please also list the courses you take this semester.
- CV (including date of birth, e-mail adress(es), mobile number, any longer stays abroad, etc)
- Transcripts with grades from bachelor and master study. Applicants should at least have grade above average C on courses. See "Selection criteria" below for more info about required qualifications.
Topic for master project: It is most relevant with master projects related to/in the domain of one of our externally funded project, see here (not fully updated). Scholarships are normally only provided to ROBIN master students.
Selection criteria: Grades, project relevance and general qualifications. Interview (including with the international partner on Zoom) may be expected. All 60 credits need to be taken in the first year of study, so you only have the master's project left to do from August 2027. Candidates will be selected by ROBIN and relevant partners.
Decision about selection is to be taken 11 November at the latest (after interviews). Since the decision is taken close to the IFI deadline for submitting the master plan (1 December), you should also have been thinking about what master project you would do if not going abroad.
Relevant labs:
(please don't make contact yourself with these labs before applying)
Brazil:
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFGRS)/Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (GIA) Porto Alegre. Contacts: Prof. Dante Barone, Ass. Prof. Renan de Queiroz Maffei (see project examples) and Prof. Edson Prestes
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC Rio), Computational Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (LIRA), Rio de Janeiro. Contact: Marley Vellasco (Google Scholar)
Japan:
- Kyoto University (Prof. Kanda)
- Kyushu University (Prof. Kurazume)
- Nagoya University
USA:
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Contact: Yumi Iwashita
- Autonomous Learning Laboratory, University of Massachusetts, Contact: Bruno Castro da Silva
These are some of the current collaboration partners, but we could be open to other hosts in the three selected countries (and have some other contacts not listed here that can be relevant). If you want to know more about what master projects that can be relevant, please check the recent papers of the contact person´s publication list (e.g. using Google scholar).
Outgoing ROBIN master students and returning visiting master students from Brazil, June 2018. Read more here.