We are currently recruiting PhD students!

See below for how to apply!

PhD Student

Note: PhD students will be enrolled as Data Science majors and co-supervised by Prof. LI Xinyue from CityUHK’s Hong Kong campus.

Minimum Application Requirements

  • A relevant bachelor’s and/or master’s degree.

  • A strong programming and statistics or ML/AI background.

  • A sufficient mathematical background to pass CityUHK’s data science PhD core courses.

Preferred Application Requirements

  • Undergraduate and master’s GPAs of 3.5+/4 from high-ranking universities.

  • At least one published peer-reviewed first-author paper related to wearables, aging epidemiology, or applications of ML/AI to health data.

How to Apply

Send an email to collin [dot] sakal [at] cityu-dg.edu.cn with the header “PHD INQUIRY - [NAME] - [CURRENT UNIVERSITY OR WORKPLACE]“ that includes the following:

  • CV

  • Research interests and career aspirations

  • Academic transcripts

  • PDFs of published first or co-authored papers

Note (1) We receive many inquiries about RA and PhD positions with vague, AI-generated emails and research proposals. Such inquiries generally receive no response.

Note (2) If our lab does not issue a response within 1 week, please send a follow-up email. Due to a high volume of emails, not all inquiries will receive direct responses.