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The School of Information Systems (SIS) at Singapore Management University (SMU) is the home of top-notch faculty, talented students and researchers who are enthusiastic to pursue first-rate, innovative academic research and publication while at the same time engaging in new initiatives that are problem driven and can be applied to national, regional and global needs. SIS/SMU provides a highly collaborative and supportive environment as well as generous support for conducting high quality world-class research. It also actively fosters collaboration with internationally renowned universities and research labs. There are five main research areas established in SIS/SMU that are presented at https://sis.smu.edu.sg/research The PhD programme for August 2020 intake is now open to all applicants: https://sis.smu.edu.sg/programmes/PhD/online-application The Social NLP group led by Prof. Wei Gao (https://sites.google.com/site/iswgao/) in SIS/SMU is pleased to invite applications for several PhD and two Research Assistant (RA) positions. Candidates will be conducting cutting-edge research to solve challenging Natural Language Processing and cross-area problems people daily face in our web and social spheres spanning different platforms, sources and languages. Areas of Interest Current research topics in Social NLP group include but are not limited to: Natural language interaction Social network analysis and mining Sentiment and stance analysis Multimodal NLP Rumor/fake news detection and fact checking Eligibility Local and international students or graduates Graduates with outstanding Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline Excellent skills in mathematical modeling and programming (e.g., Python, C/C++, R) Excellent verbal communication skills in written and spoken English Enquiries are welcome and can be made by email: wgao.qcri@gmail.com. Applicants are strongly encouraged to get in touch for informal discussions before applications are filed up formally. PhD Financial Support All our admitted PhD students will be funded by a range of financial support schemes. Fully-funded PhD fellowships and scholarships with very attractive monthly stipend and allowance are available through SIS/SMU, such as SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowships in Computing SMU Full Scholarships Industrial Postgraduate Programme (IPP) Details about admission requirements and financial aid can be found at https://sis.smu.edu.sg/programmes/PhD/admission-fees-scholarships Application Procedure PhD application for the admission year 2020-2021 Term 1 intake (August 2020) will end on 31 January 2020. Online application can be made via the following link: https://sis.smu.edu.sg/programmes/PhD/online-application Application for Research Assistant should be made directly by contacting Prof. Gao (wgao.qcri@gmail.com). The appointments can start as early as 1 January 2020 and are independent of the PhD programme. The positions remain open until they are filled. PS: Prof. GAO 非常nice，对待学生认真负责。他也是我博士期间的co-supervisor，在Prof. GAO 的指导下，我在博士三年内发表了3篇ACL，2篇 WWW，1篇 IJCAI， 1篇 CIKM。欢迎感兴趣的同学咨询了解。

PhD Scholarships and Research Assistantships (SIS/SMU, Sing