Apply by sending an e-mail with subject "COINMAC Application" to Jim Tørresen
24 October at the latest with (all in English language):
- A cover letter indicating what topic, lab and country you would be most interested in for an exchange scholarship for doing a master project and why you are motivated for doing your master abroad
- CV (including any longer stays abroad)
- Transcripts with grades from bachelor and master study. Applicants should have grade above average C on courses. See "Selection criteria" below for more info about required qualifications.
Topic for master project: It is most relevant with master projects related to/in the domain of one of our externally funded project, see here. Scholarships are normally only provided to ROBIN master students.
Selection criteria: Grades, project relevance and general qualifications. Interview (including with the international partner on Zoom) may be expected. Candidates will be selected by ROBIN and relevant partners.
Decision about scholarships is to be taken 17 November at the latest. Since the decision is taken close to the IFI deadline for submitting the master plan, you should also have been thinking about what master project you would do if not going abroad.
Possible stop in scholarship Scholarship is paid in batches and can be withheld in the case of lack of progress in the master project. Being eligible for the scholarship requires thesis submission in the spring 2025, of a thesis that obtains a pass grade.
Relevant labs:
(please don't make contact yourself with these labs before applying)
Brazil:
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFGRS)/Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (GIA) Porto Alegre. Contacts: Prof. Dante Barone, Ass. Prof. Renan de Queiroz Maffei (see project examples) and Prof. Edson Prestes
- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC Rio), Computational Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (LIRA), Rio de Janeiro. Contact: Marley Vellasco (Google Scholar)
- Brazilian Institute of Robotics, Senai CIMATEC , Salvador. Contact: Dr. Herman Lepikson
Japan:
- Toyohashi University of Technology, Active Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ADSL). Contact: Jun Miura (see project examples)
- Kyushu University (not available 2022/23)
USA:
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Contact: Dr. Adrian Stoica and Yumi Iwashita
- Autonomous Learning Laboratory, University of Massachusetts, Contact: Bruno Castro da Silva
These are the current partners in the collaboration project, but we could be open for other hosts in the three selected countries (and have some other contacts not listed here that can be relevant). If you want to know more about what master projects that can be relevant, please check the recent papers of the contact person´s publication list (e.g. using Google scholar).
Outgoing ROBIN master students and returning visiting master students from Brazil, June 2018. Read more here.