Two DoC Academics awarded Microsoft PhD Scholarships
by Sarah Willis
Dr Marc Deisenroth and Dr Ben Glocker have been awarded with prestigious Microsoft PhD Scholarships.
Marc Deisenroth and Ben Glocker, Lecturers in the Department of Computing, have been awarded with prestigious Microsoft PhD Scholarships.
"Medical Image Analysis in the Cloud: Application to Early Stage Cancer Detection" Ben Glocker
"Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning from Image Pixels" Marc Deisenroth
These scholarships will provide four-year funding for PhD students and provide the unique opportunity of working closely with researchers at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
This year, 17 scholarships have been awarded to researchers in six European countries. Applicants, who are PhD supervisors, collaborate with an assigned Microsoft Research co-supervisor to support a PhD student for up to three years as he/she carries out the proposed research project.
More information on the awarded scholarships can be found here:
For more information on Marc and Ben's work please see:
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Sarah Willis
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
