I am looking for PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, interns and visiting scholars to join my group at the Department of Computer Science at NUS. Both international and local students and postdocs are welcome.
PhD program scholarships
I have fully-funded positions for PhD students. The school will provide fully-paid scholarships with monthly stipend and full tuition fee subsidy for the PhD students under my supervision. The monthly stipend rate will be determined by the school and are subject to change.
Prospective students: If you are interested in joining my group, please apply directly to the Department of Computer Science at NUS. If you have questions about joining my group, please email to kawaguch at csail.mit.edu
Current students at NUS: If you are interested in working with me (with or without joining my group), please contact me at kawaguch at csail.mit.edu
Postdoctoral researcher position
I have fully-funded postdoctoral positions starting from July 2021 or later - the start time is flexible.
If you would like to work with me, please send your CV and research interests to: kawaguch at csail.mit.edu
I have different projects available, but the topic is flexible and the candidate can propose a topic of their own interest if they want to.
The position comes with a competitive starting salary.
Internships
If you are interested in doing a long term or short term internship please contact me at kawaguch at csail.mit.edu
Minimum requirements: bachelor's degree
Preferred qualification: master's degree or PhD
Visiting scholars
If you are interested in visiting my group, please feel free to email me.
About me
Name: Kenji Kawaguchi
Institute: National University of Singapore, the Department of Computer Science
Position: Presidential Young Professor, starting 2021
Education: PhD in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University
Research interests in my lab at NUS: Deep Learning and Machine Learning - both theory and practice
About NUS CS
In the field of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS) is ranked No. 1 in Asia and within the top 10 in the world. [Link] [Link]
CS Asia Ranking: 1st (QS World University Rankings 2021), 1st (THE World University Rankings 2021)
CS World Ranking: 4th (QS World University Rankings 2021), 8th (THE World University Rankings 2021), 8th (US News and World Reports)
Overall, NUS is a world-class university.
University Asia Ranking: 1st (QS World University Rankings 2021)
University World Ranking: 11th (QS World University Rankings 2021)
English is the main language of Singapore. The language used at NUS is English. No other language is required.
In my group at NUS CS
you can expect...
Sponsorship to attend international conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, etc.)
Collaborations with MIT, Harvard University, Brown University, MILA, Google Brain, and more.
Access to my lab's GPU workstations (plus shared GPUs in clusters): we will purchase new GPU workstations for incomming students and postdocs at my lab.
Flexibility in choosing research themes and topics.
Assistance with obtaining internships, postdoc positions and faculty positions.
A glimpse of life at NUS and Singapore
An example of one of my past research - I work on many other topics too, including practical deep learning methods: see my Google Scholar