2 PhD Positions in Computational Geometry at the University of Sydney

Two PhD scholarships are available at the Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory group (SACT), School of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia.

The research area is computational geometry, with a focus on geometric graphs, spanners, graph augmentation, and routing algorithms, under the supervision of Joachim Gudmundsson and André van Renssen. 

The PhD scholarships include:

• tuition fee waiver
• living allowance AUD 40k/year
• funding to present at international workshops and conferences
• no teaching obligations, but opportunities for teaching available

Applicants should provide evidence of a strong background in discrete mathematics, algorithms, or related topics. 

If you are interested in this opening, please contact André van Renssen (andre.vanrenssen@sydney.edu.au) and include an up-to-date CV and your transcripts. We especially encourage women and underrepresented minorities to apply. Applications will be reviewed starting on May 22nd, though later applications will be considered. 

The SACT group members include:

• Clément Canonne (sublinear algorithms, computational learning)
• Joachim Gudmundsson (computational geometry)
• Julian Mestre (combinatorial optimization)
• André van Renssen (computational geometry)
• Sasha Rubin (computational logic, automata theory)
• Tony Wirth (clustering)

The SACT group has strong collaborations with the theory group at UNSW, and is actively organising international workshops and conferences (ISAAC 2024, FOCS 2025).

The school is ranked “well above world standard” in the most recent ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) assessment (2018) in the fields “Computation Theory and Mathematics”, “Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing”, “Distributed Computing”, and “Information and Computing Sciences”. 

The university campus is centrally located:
~3km to Sydney CBD
~7km to Sydney International Airport
~10 km to the beach
~30km to the nearest national park

The city consistently ranks highly in the worldwide in the Mercer Quality of Living Survey. The following quotation is from https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Sydney: “Sydney is the Harbour City. It is the largest, oldest and most cosmopolitan city in Australia with an enviable reputation as one of the world’s most beautiful and liveable cities. Brimming with history, nature, culture, art, fashion, cuisine and design, it is set next to miles of ocean coastline and sandy surf beaches.”