Doctoral Position in Computer Science at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

Based on a funding announcement from the Research and Innovation Authority of the Slovak Republic in cooperation with the program Next Generation EU, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, seeks applicants for doctoral program in Computer Science holding Master degrees in Computer Science or related fields awarded by non-Slovakian universities.

The selected applicant will receive a monthly stipend of 1025.50 euro per month prior to passing their dissertation exam (typically by the end of the second year of studies) and 1194.00 euro per month after successful completion of the exam. The stipend is not subject to taxation and the selected applicant will not need to pay any study related fees. In addition, they will receive 200 euro per month for additional research related expenses.  Comenius University also provides subsidized student housing to all of its doctoral students receiving a stipend.

The duration of the funding is for four years; which is the expected time of completion of doctoral studies in Slovakia. The starting date is September 1, 2023. To be eligible, the applicant must hold a Master degree in Computer Science or a related field prior to September 1, 2023. Students who obtained their degree from a Slovak University are not eligible for this program.

Interested applicants are encouraged to select one of the following dissertation topics and the corresponding adviser:

- Computational analysis of large-scale datasets related to multiple sclerosis; supervisor: doc. Mgr. Bronislava Brejová, PhD.

- Computationl analysis of bacterial plasmids; supervisor: doc. Mgr. Bronislava Brejová, PhD.

- Deep learning methods for medical image analysis; supervisor: RNDr. Zuzana Černeková, PhD.

- Advertisement saliency detection; supervisor: RNDr. Zuzana Černeková, PhD.

- Road traffic and vehicle analysis; supervisor: RNDr. Zuzana Černeková, PhD.

- Science Image Recognition Algorithms for all-sky Meteor Camera Systems; supervisor: prof. RNDr. Roman Ďurikovič, PhD., consultant: doc. RNDr. Juraj Tóth, PhD.

- Mirroring mechanisms for trustworthy human-robot interaction; supervisor: prof. Ing. Igor Farkaš, Dr.

- Efficient low-resource Natural Language Processing in Slovak; supervisor: prof. Ing. Igor Farkaš, Dr.

- Virtual Museum Activisation and Usability; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Andrej Ferko, PhD.

- Safety, security, privacy and its quantification; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Damas Gruska, PhD.

- Security - formal approach; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Damas Gruska, PhD.

- Biologically motivated computational models; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Damas Gruska, PhD.

- Formal methods for verifications and specifications of concurrent and parallel systems; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Damas Gruska, PhD.

- Automated detection in many-valued logics; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Dušan Guller, PhD.

- Malware Detection Based on Explainable Al; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Martin Homola, PhD.

- Abductive reasoning with ontologies in description logics; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Martin Homola, PhD.

- Automata and Algorithmis problems in Algebra; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Tatiana Jajcayová, PhD.

- On the interplay between global and local symmetries; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Tatiana Jajcayová, PhD.

- Models of computation: Non-uniformity and Data-dependence; supervisor: prof. RNDr. Rastislav Královič, PhD.

- Algorithms on cubic graphs; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Robert Lukoťka, PhD.

- Edge colourings and some conjectures in graph theory; supervisor: doc. RNDr. Edita Mačajová, PhD.

- Relations between the structure and combinatorial invariants for classes of cubic graphs; supervisor:doc. RNDr. Edita Mačajová, PhD., consultant: RNDr. Ing. František Kardoš, PhD.

- Modeling nanopore signals; supervisor: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Vinař, PhD.

- Fundamental properties of information and complexity of problems; supervisor: prof. RNDr. Branislav Rovan, PhD.

Please send an application letter stating your selected topic and adviser together with the following documents:

• Certified copy of master´s degree diploma (in English) – a student who has not yet completed his/her master’s degree study shall submit Official Confirmation of Study Towards University Degree (in English) 
• Official transcript of completed courses during the master’s study 
• Structured CV in English, signed, with highlighted achievements 
• Two academic reference letters in English 
• Motivation letter in English

to the address:

ing. Katarína Matejčíková, 

katarina.matejcikova@fmph.uniba.sk

Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky UK
Mlynská dolina
842 48 Bratislava
Slovakia

We at the Comenius University firmly believe in equal opportunity for all and encourage all eligible applicants to apply with the knowledge that their application will be treated fairly and without any biases. The doctoral positions will be awarded on a competitive basis to the most qualified and promising applicants.