One Research Scholarship for a bachelor is opened within the scope of the R&D Unit “Center for Mathematics and Applications” (CMA) (UI/297/2020), financed by “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.”/MCTES (FCT, I.P.) (ref. UIDB/00297/2020) through national funds (PIDDAC) (OE).

Candidates holding a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics or related areas within the scope of the research carried out at CMA and regularly enrolled in the academic year 2021/22, in the 2nd cycle of an integrated MSc course or in a MSc course of the NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon (FCT NOVA), may apply to this competition. 

Scientific Area: Mathematics (Statistics)

Work Plan: It is intended that the scholarship holders will collaborate in the ongoing research activities at the CMA (https://novamath.fct.unl.pt), namely regarding the following context: Machine learning is primary concerned with revealing data patterns and relationships, in an automatic way, learning from data. It makes use of statistical and probabilistic methods to create algorithms that learn directly from part of the data, that are used to train and evaluate models for their predictive performance. Compared to traditional statistical methods, that often rely on strong assumptions, it may perform better if data size is not a problem. Machine learning has been widely used for classification and forecasting, especially on the finance markets applications, health and lately on COVID-19 context. The goal of this work is to use and compare different machine learning forecast models for prediction, such as Regression Models, Classification, Clustering, Neural Networks, etc., using Portuguese COVID-19 data.

Application deadline: Applications must be submitted between the period from 1st to the 14th of July 2022.

Further details are available on the website: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/806449