This year’s edition of the CMU Portugal online Info Session “How to apply to a CMU Portugal Affiliated Ph.D. Program Scholarship”, provided 37 participants the opportunity to learn more on how to submit a successful application to a CMU Portugal Affiliated Ph.D. Program Scholarship.
A Call is currently open until March 31st for applications to the second edition of the “Affiliated Ph.D. Programs” initiative which will offer up to 12 Scholarships for the 2023/2023 academic year in selected cutting-edge areas of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), related to the scope of the CMU Portugal Program. Portuguese Universities will host chosen candidates with a research period of up to 12 months at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and upon the Ph.D. conclusion, students will be awarded a Portuguese host university degree.
The online Info session held on February 23rd was moderated by the Program Executive Director in Portugal, Sílvia Castro, who began by introducing Inês Lynce, CMU Portugal National Co-Director, who welcomed the participants and pointed out the importance of this initiative.
The Program’s initiative presentation with all the guidelines and the main requirements to submit a successful application was led by João Fumega, CMU Portugal Education Officer. Megan Berty, CMU Portugal Associate Director at CMU, was the next panelist and spoke about the supervision requirements at CMU under this Call and the support available by the CMU Portugal coordination office in Pittsburgh.
At the end of the session, John Mendonça, a CMU Portugal Affiliated Ph.D. student selected under last year’s Call, shared his application process experience and spoke about the research work he is developing with the ICT company, Unbabel, under his Ph.D., offering useful tips for potential candidates. John is developing his thesis “Conversational Quality Estimation in Dialogues” at Instituto Superior Técnico under the supervision of Isabel Trancoso and Alon Lavie at the CMU Language Technologies Institute and in close collaboration with Unbabel under the CMU Portugal Large- Scale project, MAIA.
The session ended with a fruitful 25 minute Q&A, which allowed all participants to clarify their doubts with the panelists.
For more information about the application process, please visit the Affiliated Ph.D. Program page on our website and the FAQs Page.
