Supervision
Students on the CDT programme will undertake two 10-week exploratory projects usually with different supervisors before selecting their substantive DPhil project. The main supervisor for the DPhil project is expected to be a member of our Supervision Pool. Students are encouraged to include additional co-supervisors from EIT. Additional co-supervision may also be arranged with Oxford academics beyond the supervisor pool.
During your first year, you will have a supervisor from the academic leadership of the CDT. Regular meetings serve to monitor academic progress as well as to discuss any academic issues or questions arising. After the first year, you will transition into the home department of your primary supervisor to commence you research project, though you may also have a co-supervisor in the same (or another) department. First-year supervisors will act as mentors throughout the programme, providing academic and pastoral guidance.
You will be expected to meet your supervisor on a regular basis. Typically, these meetings should take place at least once every two weeks, averaged across the year, to discuss your progress. The allocation of graduate supervision for this course is the responsibility of the EIT CDT in Fundamentals in AI and it is not always possible to accommodate the preferences of incoming graduate students to work with a particular member of staff. Under exceptional circumstances a supervisor may be found outside the CDT.