<div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: M. Xie <<a href="mailto:m.xie@cityu.edu.hk">m.xie@cityu.edu.hk</a>> Date: 2014-09-12 1:59 GMT-03:00 Subject: Recruiting students for PhD Fellowship, monthly stipend of HK$20,000 (~US$2,600). To: <a href="mailto:allstat@jiscmail.ac.uk">allstat@jiscmail.ac.uk</a> Dept of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM) at City Univ of Hong Kong is looking for applicants with strong academic background to pursue PhD in the department. Various funding schemes are available. In particular, please recommend your top students to apply for HK PhD Fellowship as well. It is a prestigious award established by the Research Grants Councili (RGC) of the HKSAR Government, aims at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursue their research degree programs in Hong Kong's institutions. The Fellowship provides a monthly stipend of HK$20,000 (~US$2,600), and conference and research-related travel allowance of HK$10,000 (~US$1,300) per year for the awardees for a maximum of three years. In addition, Fellowship recipients at CityU will be awarded the “Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies Entrance Scholarship” (HK$67,296; ~USD8,630), which covers students' tuition and on-campus hostel accommodation fees in their first year of research studies. For Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, we are particularly interested in applicants with strong quantitative analysis skills to carry out research in applied statistics, quality, reliability and risk analysis. Our College of Science and Engineering is highly ranked according to different rankings. <a href="http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/cse/cms/content.aspx?id=rankings&lang=en" target="_blank">http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/cse/cms/content.aspx?id=rankings&lang=en</a> Several senior professors welcome applicants with statistics/mathematics background: <a href="http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/staff-acad.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/staff-acad.htm</a> •Prof. TSUI, K.L.; Head and Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering; •Prof. KUO, Way; President and University Distinguished Professor; •Prof. BENSOUSSAN, Alain; Chair Professor of Risk and Decision Analysis; •Prof. SINGPURWALLA, Nozer; Chair Professor of Risk Analysis and Management; •Prof. XIE, Min; Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering Interested applicants could also contact Prof M Xie (<a href="mailto:minxie@cityu.edu.hk">minxie@cityu.edu.hk</a>) with a full resume for more information. You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to <a href="mailto:listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk">listserv@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>, leaving the subject line blank. </div> -- <div dir="ltr">Basilio de Bragança Pereira ,DIC and PhD(Imperial College), DL(COPPE) *UFRJ-Federal University of Rio de Janeiro *Titular Professor of Bioestatistics and of Applied Statistics *FM-School of Medicine and COPPE-Posgraduate School of Engineering and HUCFF-University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho. *Tel: 55 21 3938-7045/7047/2618 <a href="http://www.po.ufrj.br/basilio/" target="_blank">www.po.ufrj.br/basilio/</a> *MailAddress: COPPE/UFRJ Caixa Postal 68507 CEP 21941-972 Rio de Janeiro,RJ Brazil </div> </div>