Team and Joining

• Filip Bircanin – Postdoctoral Researcher on TACT Project.
• Alexandre Nevsky - Postdoctoral Researcher (supervised with Ulrike Hammerbeck) and viva-ed PhD student (supervised w/ Elena Simperl)
• Wenqi Zhu – PhD Student (supervised with Siobhán O'Connor)
• Defne Eken – PhD Student (supervised w/ Letizia Gionfrida)
• Xi Hu – PhD Student (supervised w/ Rita Borgo and Mike Cook)
• Carlota Vazquez Gonzalez – PhD Student (supervised w/ Rita Borgo)

I am always on the lookout for excellent PhD students to work with me in the Human Centred Computing group at King's. I am keen to work with PhD students interested in projects in the areas of HCI, accessibility, novel interaction techniques and content creation/consumption technologies. Look at my publications to get an idea of my interests.

Funding Options

• Fully-funded positions for exceptional candidates through KCL scholarships. These funding allocations are for full fees and a living stipend (London weighted) for any nationality.
• King's China Scholarships (for Chinese nationals). These funding allocations are for full fees and a living stipend (London weighted).
• Fully-funded as part of the King’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health.
• Alternative funding: if you are keen to do a PhD but are not sure how to fund, or wish to self-fund, I am happy to work towards putting together applications for PhD fellowships for exceptional candidates.

Are You the Right Fit?

I am interested in students who can demonstrate some technical skills (e.g. programming, electronics), HCI skills (e.g. running user studies, interviewing) and research skills (e.g. data analysis, paper writing). I also need to see some previous work in innovative human-computer interaction work (e.g., undergraduate or postgraduate projects in this area). I cannot accept students who do not have some HCI experience. King's expects students to have First-Class Honours at Undergraduate level or Distinction at Master's level (or its international equivalent). If you do not meet these criteria, there might be alternative ways to demonstrate your competence.

Next Steps

As I am sure you appreciate, academics get many emails from prospective PhD students; many of whom send out their proposals to hundreds of academics and have little/no bearing on their research. I normally do not have time to respond to these. If you meet the above criteria and want to do a PhD, get in touch with:

• Your CV
• A paragraph about your proposed research and why you are the person to conduct it
• A paragraph on what you think a PhD will involve and why you want to do one
• A writing sample -- this can be anything from an assignment to a published paper
• A sentence on your favourite animal and why

GenAI note: Please do not write these emails with GenAI –– is very obvious when such content is written heavily leaning on GenAI. I recieve into the hundreds of these emails per year, and many of them are identical walls of sycophantic GenAI nonsense. I would prefer something less polished, but from you.

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