MSCS Students Win Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarships

MSCS Students Adam Day and Phillip Wong are among only four Victoria University students who have been awarded Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarships in the latest round of funding. The four students collectively received more than $350,000 for their PhD research.

Phillip's PhD study will be to look into reducing the computational cost of the program-creator tool Genetic Programming. Adam will undertake a PhD in understanding what it means to be computationally random.

Forty-two students nationwide received Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarships, collectively worth $4.4 million, for study at either a New Zealand or an overseas university.

More information on the scholarships can be found on the TEC website at: www.tec.govt.nz

Article adapted from VicNews