phd courses aalborg university

Welcome to Academic Information Searching - Methods, Sources and Socumentation - G CPH (2024)Description:This course is about the various aspects that are important when searching for literature as part of your PhD. Structured literature se

Welcome to Academic Information Searching : Methods, Sources and Documentation (Tech/Eng) - C 2024Description: The objective of this course is to provide an understanding of the various aspects that are important when searching for literature as

Welcome to Academic Information Searching : Methods, Sources and Documentation (Tech/Eng) - D 2024Description: The objective of this course is to provide an understanding of the various aspects that are important when searching for literature as

Welcome to Advanced control for building applicationsOrganizer: Alireza AfshariLecturers: Samira Rahnama, Mahmood KhatibiECTS: 3.0 (28 hours of work load per ECTS)Time: 2-4 December 2024Place: Aalborg UniversityZip

Description: The aim of this course is to give the participants an idea of how the mathematical vocabulary is used and the strength of using it properly. This is needed by engineering PhD's when reading papers, which will often use the commo

Welcome to Advanced Natural Language Processing for Industry: Theory and PracticeOrganiser: Assistant Professor, Chen Li, [email protected] Lecturers: Associate Professor, Dimitris Chrysostomou, Department of Materials and ProductionAssocia

Description: The notion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) dates back approx. 70 years as a research field and even longer if one considers fiction writers. A number of different definitions of AI has been suggested over the yea

Welcome to Microplastic Research – Analytical Methods for Microplastic QuantificationDescription: This PhD course addresses the theory of sampling, sample preparation and state-of-the-art analytical techniques to analyze microplastics in e

Description: During the last decades, Bayesian statistics has gained enormous popularity as an elegant and powerful computational tool to perform statistical analysis in complex stochastic models as applied in engineering, science and medicine. Bayes

Description: This course on biostatistics will focus on the complexity of data collected in biomedical research. Therefore, the course will focus on topics like sample size estimation, meta-analysis and multi-factorial methods. This course will

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Zheng-Hua Tan

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Professor of Machine Learning and Speech Processing Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark 

He is a Full Professor of Machine Learning and Speech Processing, a Co-Head of the Centre for Acoustic Signal Processing Research ( CASPR ), Machine Learning Research Group Leader in the Department of Electronic Systems, and the Head of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) Doctoral Programme at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is a Co-Lead of Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence , Denmark.

He was a Visiting Scientist/Professor at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA (in 2022, 2017 and 2012), an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and a postdoctoral fellow at AI Spoken Language Lab, in the Department of Computer Science at KAIST, Korea.

He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Hunan University, China, in 1990 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 1999. 

His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, speech and speaker recognition, noise-robust speech processing, multimodal signal processing, and social robotics (developed interactive iSocioBot ). He has over 250 referred journal and conference publications. His works have been recognized by the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society 2022 Best Paper Award and International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) 2022 Best Research Paper Award .

His teaching has been focusing on machine learning and AI. He established and teaches the Machine Learning PhD course (2007-now), the Deep Learning PhD course (2015-now), the Self-Supervised Learning PhD course (2024), the Machine Learning Master course (2009-now), and the Deep Learning Master course (2023-now), all at Aalborg University. He also teaches Reinforcement Learning and Self-Supervised Learning PhD courses. He established and taught the Introduction to AI course to Bachelor students in 1999 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

He has served as an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor for several journals including IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING, Computer Speech and Language, and Digital Signal Processing. He is a Lead Editor for IEEE Journal of STSP Inaugural Special Series on AI in Signal & Data Science – Toward Explainable, Reliable, and Sustainable Machine Learning. He was a Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of STSP and a Guest Editor of several journals including Neurocomputing.

He was the elected Chair of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP TC), is a Member of IEEE MLSP TC from 2018-2023 and is a Member of IEEE Speech and Language Processing TC from 2024-2026. He is a member of the IEEE SPS Conferences Board and was a member of the IEEE SPS Technical Directions Board.

He is a TPC Vice-Chair for ICASSP 2024, Seoul, Korea, and a Publicity Co-Chair of the Inaugural IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), Santa Clara, California. He was the General Chair of IEEE 28th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2018), Aalborg, Denmark, and was a Program Co-Chair for IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT 2016), San Diego, California, USA. He has served as a Chair, Program Co-chair, Area and Session Chair, and Tutorial Speaker of many international conferences. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

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For Current PhD students

Forms, rules and other related material for current PhD students

Information for current PhD students

Find all required information and forms from the Doctoral School on this part of the website

Click the topics below for additional information

Forms and templates, forms applied .

• Application for Enrollment
• Template for the PhD Plan
• Student and Supervisor Agreement - read carefully at the start of the PhD study.

Forms applied during the PhD

• Application for financial support to stays abroad
• Portfolio template - used in connection with progress reports
• ECTS for conference participation
• Paradigm for outcome of study circle
• Application for leave of absence

Forms applied when finishing the PhD Study

• Co-author statements
• Supervisor statement
• Declaration of Good Scientific Practice

Information about the PhD plan & The Pre-Defense

The 2 month phd plan.

The PhD plan is a crucial step in any PhD study and its importance must not be overlooked. It is a requirement that the PhD plan follows the provided template since it contains information regarding the scope and the content required in the PhD plan - link to the template at the bottom of this page. The Phd plan must be submitted through PhD manager no later than 2 months after the enrollment date.

UPDATED PHD PLAN 

The updated PhD plan must ensure a feasible and realistic research approach in line with fulfilment of general rules such as course portfolio and external collaboration. The updated PhD plan requires a great deal of attention from the PhD student and supervisor and unfortunately experience shows that the updated PhD plan is often delayed. This makes it significantly harder to adjust the research strategy for the remainder of the PhD project. The pre-defense seeks to adress this issues by involving external opponents. 

PRE-DEFENSE

Before the deadline for the updated PhD plan (11 months after enrolment), it should be presented (pre-defence) at a suitable meeting in the various research groups (e.g. internal research meetings). The form is a 20 min presentation followed by 20 min discussion. If it is not possible to present the PhD plan at a suitable scientific forum due to logistics, the supervisor must organize a meeting where the presentation and discussion can take place.

The supervisor appoints an internal opponent (eligible as PhD supervisor, but not directly involved in the project) with expertise within the field. The intention is not to invite externals.Based on the presentation and the written Phd plan, the opponent should challenge the PhD plan with focus on scientific content, feasibility, novelty, flow of studies, etc. Questions and comments from the participants of the meeting are also encouraged. If required, the updated PhD plan is revised accordingly.

A short written evaluation (5-10 lines) is prepared by the opponent and must accompany the updated PhD plan when it is submitted for approval to the head of the doctoral programme. A positive recommendation is a prerequisite for further processing. In case revisions are requested the PhD student also submits a cover letter describing the revisions done based on the suggestions from the opponent.

PhD student submits the PhD plan no later than after 2 months of enrollment - must be approved by supervisor and head of program via PhD manager - deadline cannot be extempted from.   Updated plan is uploaded along with comments from the predefense after 11 months of enrollment - must be approved by supervisor and head of program via PhD manager.- extemption from the deadline can only be granted by the PhD Study Director.

External research stay - Information and funding

Research stay abroad.

The Doctoral School recommends that you go abroad for your external research stay/collaboration. Going abroad and putting your research into a whole different context allows you to strengthen your international network and gain new perspectives on your research. 

The main purpose of the stay should be to develope and further your research, develope new ideas in a new setting and of course to expand your network.  It is a requirement that you during your PhD Study have a form of external research collaboration.

WHERE TO GO AND FOR HOW LONG?

The external research stay can compose of one long stay or a combination of several short stays (minimum duration of one month if you want financial support from the Doctoral School).

Stays shorter than one month are also viable but you cannot receive financial support from the Doctoral School. 

If you have questions in relation to the duration, contact your supervisors or AAU PhD. The location needs to have an active research environment - it can be both universities, organizations or other institutions.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE DOCTORAL SCHOOL

Application for financial support must be sent to the Doctoral School no later than one month prior to the travel. The applied template must be filled out and signed by all required parties.

The support covers:

• Own transport (one roundtrip, cheapest way)
• Tuition fees
• Own expenses for food and small necessities According to the rules in the Tax Assessment Act (Ligningsloven) Section 9 A.

5.000 kr pr month with a travel length over 3 months and up to 6 months (the travel can be longer but we can only cover up to 6 months) 3.000 kr pr month with a travel length between 1-3 months When accompanied by spouse/cohabitor AND child(ren) the monthly amount for the PhD student can be increased by 1,000 DKK and 500 DKK per child.

The monthly grant is paid in advance and calculated relatively according to the whole duration of the study abroad.

The amount is paid as an advance. Therefore a final settlement with the university must take place immediately upon return (no later than 10 work days after return according to AAU’s guidelines). It is extremely important that this deadline is met in order for AAU to comply with SKAT’s guidelines for correct filing.

In some cases it is possible to obtain a tax deduction (Differencefradrag). However it is not possible to calculate this before the end of the stay abroad and final settlement with the university. If you wish to take a tax deduction (and are eligible to a deduction) the Doctoral School must be contacted.

The application for a tax deduction takes place by contacting SKAT directly bringing along the final settlement from AAU (Please do not contact SKAT before talking to the Doctoral School).

The application for financial support must follow the template and be sent to the Doctoral School ( [email protected] ) 1 month prior to the travel.

Stays with a minimum duration of 1 month can receive financial support from the Doctoral School.

Stays shorter than 1 month are approved in relation to the requirements in the ministerial order - but cannot receive financial support.

Download the template

Online form (no signatures needed)

PhD Courses

Rules concerning PhD courses:

• 10 ECTS from general PhD courses
• 10 ECTS from specific PhD courses
• 10 for free distribution
• 6 ECTS can be gained from active conference participation and the like
• ECTS from conferences and the like only needs approval from your supervisors if it counts as part of the 6 ECTS that you can usually use for this purpose. If you want conference participation to count as “regular-ECTS” you need your head of programs approval.

All courses must be at PhD level at identifiable institutions. In general, no single course should exceed 6 ECTS credit points.

Finding the right PhD courses:

• https://phd.moodle.aau.dk/ - all PhD courses at Aalborg University
• www.phdcourses.dk  - all PhD courses in Denmark (usually free of charge for PhD students)
• https://www.nordochealth.net/courses  - PhD courses in scandinavia (usually free of charge for PhD students)

It is possible to find courses elsewhere but if they are not listed as PhD courses they may require approval from your supervisor or the head of program.

• It is your head of program that approves courses that are not PhD couses, study circles and ECTS from conferences that are not part of the 6 ECTS allocated
• Introduction to the PhD Study
• Applying the Danish Code of Conduct of Research Integrity to Your Research
• Active participation in the PhD Day
• Mandatory program specific course

Leave of Absence

A PhD student has the right to apply for leave of absence from the Doctoral School. The application must be signed by the supervisor and forwarded to the Doctoral Shool.

Leave of absence will normally be granted in cases of:

• Military service etc.

Leave of absence means that the applicant’s PhD programme is prolonged by the duration of the leave of absence. If the leave is due to PhD related activities the leave must be for a period of minimum three months. Please note that an application for leave must generally be received by the Doctoral School no later than one month before the beginning of the leave.

If you are employed as a PhD stipend remember to notify the HR Department.

Questions in relation to a leave of absence can be sent to Maria Bredvig or the mail below.

The application must be sent to  [email protected]

Find the template in forms and templates above.

Rules and regulations

• The Ministerial Order on the PhD programme (Danish)
• The Ministerial Order on the PhD programme (English)
• Danish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity
• Points to be aware when using Generative AI and AI-Assisted Technologies

Application for extension

When your PhD study is about to expire you will receive information from the Doctoral School about the application for an extension - you can apply for an extension two times.

• You do not need to use the full duration of the extension.
• You can always submit your thesis - also if you are not enrolled.
• Make sure all signatures are present when submitting the application.
•  If applicable you also need to renew your work/residence permit.

Download the application for extension

Submission of PhD thesis - VBN