Fully Funded PhD Scholarship in Geographic Information Retrieval/Machine Learning for Disaster Applications at Massey University

Research Areas:

• Extraction of disaster impacts from text-based social media sources
• Integrating the text data with sensor data and conventional geographic data sets using multi-modal data fusion
• Exploring the use of this data in a question-answering system to support earthquake response

The project will be supervised by Dr Kristin Stock, Director of the Massey Geoinformatics Collaboratory and Senior Lecturer in Information Technology; and Dr Raj Prasanna, CRISiSLab Lead, and Senior Lecturer at Massey University.

The scholarship will provide a student stipend of $27,500 per annum plus tuition fees.

Requirements from applicants:

• Meeting the University requirements for entry into the PhD programme, including a postgraduate degree in computer science, geospatial science with a strong computational element, or similar
• A strong computer science background, with skills in deep learning and natural language processing
• Skills in geographic information/geospatial science will be an advantage

How to apply:

Please submit your application by emailing the following documents to k.stock@massey.ac.nz:

• CV
• academic transcripts showing grades for all qualifications completed
• a cover letter explaining why you are interested in and suitable for the position
• details of three referees

Closing Date: 10^th December 2021.