Ph.D. Students Open Positions

General Information

At DIANA, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, we always welcome applications from highly talented and motivated students. We ask from our Ph.D. students an international visibility with publications is the best international journals and conferences.

Making a Ph.D. thesis is not a minor decision that one can take when one does not know what to do else. Making an average Ph.D. thesis will be a waste of time for you and your advisor, but making a good Ph.D. thesis will be one of the most intellectually rewarding experience. For this reason, before applying for a Ph.D. student position, you need to ask yourself the right questions. To help you during this process, we urge you to read the two following excellent articles.

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In order to apply for a Ph.D. position, we ask you to send us by email the following information. If you do not provide this information, your application will not be considered. Recommendation letters are very important. However, the reputation of the person who writes the recommendation letter is as important as what is in the letter (if I don't know the person who wrote the letter, then the impact of this letter will be much lower). Poor recommendation letters are usually from someone who don't know what is the academic research (thus his qualification to judge whether a candidate can be a good Ph.D. student is low). I give in the following examples of a good person to write a recommendation letter. As an illustration the only two students (out of hundreds) who sent me recommendation letters following those advices got one of my Ph.D. student position (success rate of 100%). No other student got a position (failure rate of 100%). It is always possible to have an exception, but something in your application must shine.