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Overview
The topic is flexible and depends on student's background, previous experience and mathematical skill. For statistical model , topics include component analysis, supervised learning, mixture model , et al. For data, topics include survival data, functional data, network analysis. Students of the Foundations of Private and Fair Statistics (Internship) project at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) will design new algorithms to solve these problems and provide theoretical guarantees on the utility-privacy or utility-fairness tradeoff. Moreover, they will implement these algorithms on some sensitive data such as healthcare and biomedical data.
Recommended Student Background
- Optimization
- Statistics
- Probability
- Machine Learning
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- Students will learn basic techniques and terminologies in differential privacy, fairness and some topics in statistics.
- They will have the chance to implement the best-known algorithm for some specific problems. Hopefully, they could have some new results and publications after the project.
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Duration
- Part-time
- 3 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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- Application deadline: All year around
Language
English
TOEFL® IBT 81
PTE Academic 62
IELTS 6.5
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Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
- Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Disciplines
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Academic requirements
GPA 3.5
English requirements
TOEFL® IBT 81
PTE Academic 62
IELTS 6.5
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Undergraduate students in 3rd year or above and master’s students.
- Minimum GPA: 3.5/4
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Statement of purpose
- Contact details of 3 referees
- Official English language test score
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Additional Details
- This is a fully-funded internship; it includes tuition, airfare, housing, medical insurance, visa reimbursement and a monthly stipend of $1,000.
Living costs
Thuwal
Saudi Arabia
2270 - 3445 SAR / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
The KAUST Fellowship includes:
- Full coverage of tuition and bench fees (worth USD $35,000 per year)
- A monthly stipend (worth USD $20,000 per year for PG Diploma and M.S. students, and USD $25,000 to $30,000 for Ph.D. students depending on qualifications and academic progress)
- On-campus housing (worth USD $7,000 per year and covering utilities such as electricity and wifi)
- Health insurance (worth USD $1,450 per year)
- Relocation support (visa, relocation and travel costs)
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