Position Details
* Position to be based at La Trobe Melbourne Campus.
* An amount of $40,000 per annum for 3.5 years, fee relief additional, fortnightly stipend.
This prestigious La Trobe University scholarship, in partnership with the Australian Office of National Intelligence, will be awarded to an outstanding applicant interested in connecting spatial and spectral information to understand complex materials systems at the molecular level with machine learning.
The PhD Student will work with tumour sections to develop multiple instance learning and weak supervision / spatial transcriptomics models to individualise tumour type, associated biomarkers and genomic characteristics to high precision. The resulting multipurpose machine learning workflows will lead to rapid precision diagnoses and effective individualized cancer care plans. Coding and user interface development skills will be developed.
Eligibility Criteria
* Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents, or New Zealand special category visa holders.
* Meet the entrance requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy.
* Agree to be enrolled full-time and undertake research at the La Trobe University Melbourne campus.
* Have an outstanding record of prior performance.
* Have completed a Masters by Research or an equivalent substantial research body, such as an honours thesis or lead authorship of a peer‐reviewed publication, assessed at a La Trobe Masters by research standard of 75 or above.
* Have outstanding grounding in one or more of the following disciplines: cancer biology, cancer medicine, physics, chemistry, engineering, machine learning / data science, coding.
Benefits Of The Scholarship Include
* Stipend scholarship for three and a half years, valued at $40,000 per annum (pro‐rata), to support living costs.
* Fee‐relief scholarship for up to four years.
* Opportunities to work with La Trobe's outstanding researchers in state‐of‐the‐art laboratories and access professional development programs.
* Collaborative project involving time spent with the Olivia Newton‐John Cancer Research Institute and CSIRO.
* Opportunities to travel to conferences in Australia and overseas.
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