PhD Language and Information Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University

The PhD in Language and Information Technologies at the Language Technologies Institute develops scientific and entrepreneurial leaders in speech processing, language processing, information retrieval, machine translation and machine learning. Students are expected to publish original research and most graduates become professors and research scientists, with some starting companies. After the second year students spend most of their time on research with their faculty advisers.

Faculty: Kenneth C. Griffin School of Computer Science  |  Department: Language Technologies Institute  |  Duration: typically 5 years  |  Intake: Fall (August); one admission cycle per year  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States

What you will study

Students pass at least 96 units of graduate courses (usually eight): at least 72 units of LTI courses including one class in three of four breadth categories and an application engineering course, and at least 24 units of SCS courses. They also satisfy proficiencies in writing, presentation, programming and teaching, and propose and defend a dissertation. Sample first-year courses include Introduction to Deep Learning, Advanced Natural Language Processing and Search Engines.

Career pathways

Most graduates become professors and research scientists; some start their own companies.

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