Offers

The Intelligent Systems Group was founded by Professors Gregorio Fernández, Mercedes Garijo and Fernando Sáez-Vacas in 1985, addressing issues of intelligent systems and complexity, creating a school of researchers and professionals. These grants are intended to continue their work in the training of researchers in these areas.

The Intelligent Systems Group of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid publishes the first call for grants for students of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid to carry out research work in the Intelligent Systems Group during the academic year 2021-2022.

A PhD Contract for an outstanding candidate to undertake research on Social Network Analysis (SNA), Agent-Based Social Simulation (ABSS) and Natural Language processing (NLP). - 2 Open Positions.

Position description

The expected outcome of the research is a PhD dissertation concerning the development of scalable and robust algorithms to apply intelligent techniques in the field of disinformation in social media.

The PhD position is open at the Intelligent System Group (GSI), Department of Telematic Engineering  at the Telecommunications Engineering School of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Technical University of Madrid).

Ph.D. Topic:  Exploiting Knowledge Graphs for Improving Mental Wellbeing at Home through Content-based Recommendations

Description

The Ph.D. thesis aims at researching personalized content recommendation algorithms for selecting videos. The main project's goal is to reduce users’ frustration when selecting videos and contribute to users' personal well-being. To this end, the project will explore the usage of Knowledge-Graph based Recommendation Systems.

The Ph.D. thesis will be developed in a combined academic and industrial settings, from an industry-driven perspective.

Candidates are expected to publish in highly refereed journals and conferences. The grant will support a research stay of 3 months.

Supervisor Company: Optiva media