19 December: FYI -- PhD funding, Dublin

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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 16:52:03 +0000
From: Declan O'Sullivan
Subject: PhD opportunity with Accenture and ADAPT

Hi all

Could you please distribute the following amongst your contacts and networks

Thanks
Declan

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4 year fully funded PhD Studentship, co-funded by Accenture Tech Labs and ADAPT Centre at Trinity College Dublin.
Funding: Payment of tax-free stipend and payment of academic fees.
Application Deadline: 30th January 2017

Accenture Tech Lab
(https://www.accenture.com/ie-en/accenture-technology-labs-index) -
R&D division of Accenture - and the Science Foundation Ireland ADAPT
Centre (www.adaptcentre.ie) are offering a PhD position that will use
Linked Data/Semantic Web and Machine Learning to “Learning and
explaining Ontology Mapping in the context of Concept Drift”.

Accenture Tech Labs has been investigating techniques for reasoning
over large knowledge graphs, usually exposed to capture semantics of
enterprise data. Such techniques have been shown to be strongly
beneficial for interpreting and explaining machine learning models,
which are strongly used for predicting future patterns e.g., future
skills in the Human Resource domain, high risk projects in the project
risk management area, or any anomaly such as behaviour in the context
of anti-money laundering or abnormal expenses in Finance. However the
reasoning techniques strongly leverage the semantics of the underlying
data, which is not always available, accurate, and even worst could be
dynamic and ambiguous. Towards this issue we envision automated
approaches that could leverage semantic technologies together with
machine learning for learning mapping from Relation Database to
existing ontologies in DBpedia, wikidata, and Google Knowledge
graph. Given the temporal nature of data, especially in a context
where the semantics is dynamic (i.e., the semantics of terms and
conditions is changing over different contexts such as time, clients,
and region):

· How to learn mapping techniques for enterprise data?

· How to elaborate methods that could scale to concept drift (i.e., dynamics of semantics across various context)?

· How to handle temporal evolution of semantics?

· How to explain the mappings and their evolution?

All are research questions that remain open.

More details on this PhD position and application procedure is
available at: http://adaptcentre.ie/careers/Spokes_%20ACC_PhD.pdf

The student will be based at the ADAPT Centre in TCD, but will also
spend time at the Accenture Tech Lab. ADAPT has received €50 Million
research funding from Industry and Science Foundation Ireland to
support 120 researchers across 4 universities in Dublin. The ADAPT
Centre’s mission is to produce world class research that delivers
disruptive innovations for the digital media and intelligent content
industry. This PhD position will be supervised by Prof. Declan
O’Sullivan from TCD, and Dr. Freddy Lecue from Accenture Tech Lab in
Dublin and INRIA in Sophia Antipolis.

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