Scholarships:
Master's and PhD in Natural Language Processing

6 years of research without worrying about money

Not a loan • No additional workload • Guaranteed by the Government

Alexander Gelbukh

Where to study Master's or PhD abroad? How to study in the Americas? Where to study natural language processing or artificial intelligence? How to publish in top journals? Where to get good scholarship for Master's or PhD? Looking for fully funded Master's or PhD position? We offer scholarships for graduate students in computer science, scholarships for international students, and scholarships for women.

Also PostDoc positions!


    The Natural Language Processing Laboratory of the Center for Computing Research (CIC) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico City, Mexico, offers a limited number of scholarships to international students for earning Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science with a thesis in the area of Natural Language Processing. After earning a Master's degree, the students are encouraged to apply for the PhD level, and (if they pass; usually they do) the scholarship is extended accordingly.

    Topics include, but are not limited to, all areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Human Language Technologies (HLT), and related areas. See our publications and defended theses for examples of our research interests.

    Amount of scholarship: Master's 600 USD, PhD: 800 USD per month approx (including vacations; here can be updated info in Spanish). This is more than enough for normal living and renting a room in Mexico City. The scholarship is not a loan: you are not expected to return it; no service (such as teaching assistance) is required. More details on it can be found in my presentation about our scholarships.

    Duration: Master's: up to 2 years (usually extendable to 2.5 years), PhD: up to 4 years.

    Type of program: Research. Both programs are oriented to scientific research and publication rather than to improving your programming skills.

    Employment: Most of our PhD graduates are employed in academia and governmentally funded research, though there are success stories of employment in top companies. Our MSc students typically continue to the PhD level; those that decided not to continue, are employed in academia or industry.

    Admission: see a description of our admission procedure, but please read on; you will find the same link at the bottom of this page.

    More details: see my presentation on our scholarships (and here in Spanish), in which I give some calculations, comment on whether the country is dangerous (no, it is not!), and present details about our NLP Laboratory.

    Why study at the CIC-NLP Lab?

    Objectives

    Master's:

    PhD:

    Requirements

    Convinced. What's the next step?

    Contact a professor who you prefer to have as advisor: Alexander Gelbukh, Grigori Sidorov, Ildar Batyrshin, or Hiram Calvo (choose only one; if we discover that you applied to more than one without clearly notifying both of them of this fact, you will be rejected immediately).

    Please use the Subject line "Prospective PhD student" or "Prospective MSc student" as applicable. Messages with a different Subject line might be lost.

    Please include:

    If we confirm that we consider you a strong candidate, please follow the steps outlined in my description of our admission procedure (currently I wrote it mostly for PhD level; ask us for instructions for MSc). Please feel free to contact us if in doubt.

    Questions: Alexander Gelbukh. See this information in other languages.