PhD Studentships

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School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

A number of Postgraduate Research Studentships are available within the School of Electronics Electrical Engineering and Computer Science for home and EU students enrolling in 2020.

Potential PhD proposals

Potential PhD projects in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Potential PhD projects in Computer Science

Postgraduate Research

Postgraduate Research Courses

Course

Qualification

Duration

Electrical & Electronic Engineering

MPhil

4 Academic Years (Part-time) / 2 Academic Years (Full-time)

Electrical & Electronic Engineering

MPhil

4 Academic Years (Part-time) / 2 Academic Years (Full-time)

Computer Science

MPhil

2 Academic Years (Full-time) / 4 Academic Years (Part-time)

Computer Science

MPhil

2 Academic Years (Full-time) / 4 Academic Years (Part-time)

Computer Science

PhD

3 Academic Years (Full-time) / 6 Academic Years (Part-time)

Computer Science

PhD

3 Academic Years (Full-time) / 6 Academic Years (Part-time)

Electrical & Electronic Engineering

PhD

6 Academic Years (Part-time) / 3 Academic Years (Full-time)

Electrical & Electronic Engineering

PhD

6 Academic Years (Part-time) / 3 Academic Years (Full-time)

PhD Opportunities

PhD Opportunities
Course	Qualification	Duration
Hybrid Energy Storage Systems for Wind Energy in Medium Voltage DC Applications	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Adaptive Modular Converter-Based Energy Storage for Grid-Optimal Virtual Synchronous Generators	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Behind-the-Meter Generation Forecasting for Grid Visibility	PHD	Full-time: 3.5 Years
Zero Trust Power Management for On-Chip Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Decentralized Trust Zone for Remote Health Monitoring	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Hardware assisted homomorphic encryption (HE) acceleration.	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Fault tolerant post quantum cryptography systems for satellite communications	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Dual-Functional Millimeter-Wave Antennas for Integrated Sensing and Communication in 6G Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Sub-Terahertz Antennas for 3D Heterogeneous Integration	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Sub-Millimeter Wave Antennas for High-Resolution Terahertz Imaging Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Hardware Security for Approximate Computing	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Anti-counterfeiting Techniques Design and Analysis for IoTs	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Advancing Future Post-Quantum Digital Signatures	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Secure computation with advanced cryptography	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Secure Synchronised Measurements for Smart Grids	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Machine Learning for Secure 6G Cell-Free Massive MIMO	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Machine Learning for Integrated Sensing and Communication	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Autonomous Security for PLC Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Non-Iterative Schemes for Simulation of Nonlinear Musical Instrument Dynamics	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Learning-based Adaptation for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles using Visual Foundation Models	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Learning-based Resilient Risk-Aware Autonomy for Quadrupedal Robots	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Advanced Reconfigurable Beamforming Hardware at Millimeter-waves	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Active Polarisation Agile Spherical Retrodirective Antenna	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Retrodirective antenna technology for fast tracking of supersonic platforms	PHD	Full-time: 3.5 Years
A paradigm shift in RIS for 6G	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Real time distributed wireless power transfer	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Calibrated Machine Learning for Reliability in Advanced Wireless Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Machine Learning Solutions for Optimising Advanced Wireless Systems Performance	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Impact Metrics and Resilient Control for Cyber-physical Control Systems under Attack	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Reachability-driven safe planning in robotics	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Orbital Angular Momentum Antennas for Microwave Imaging	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Multifunctional Space-Time coded Holographic Metasurface Antennas	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
New robotic sensing enabled by the electromagnetic spectrum	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Estimation and exploration of wind fields with unmanned aerial vehicles	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Development of a digital twin and model predictive control schemes for farms of floating wind turbines	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Provision of Dynamic Distribution System Services from Battery Energy Storage	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Synchronous Inertia Response from Inverter Connected Energy Sources	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Generative AI for Mission Planning and Decision Making in Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs)	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
3D human activity recognition and understanding using mmWave radar	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
AI-enhanced next-generation health sensing using mmWave radar	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Contactless healthcare monitoring for multi-environment adaptability	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Scalable Wi-Fi-based localization and trajectory tracking with AI	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Space-Time Coded Arrays for THz Communications	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
True Time Delay Gradient Metasurfaces for Terahertz Pulse Waves	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Retroreflecting metasurface mirrors for THz range	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Integrated Sensing and Communication for 6G Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Localization and sensing using holographic/XL-MIMO antennas	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Novel array designs for 6G communications	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Holographic MIMO beamforming	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Resilient Cell-Free Massive MIMO	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Generative AI for Digital Twinning in human-robot collaborative systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Data Driven Resilient Enhancement for Cyber Physical Active Distribution Network	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Strategic Pathway Decisions for Green Hydrogen in Low Carbon Energy System	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Data Driven Optimal Pricing and Operation of Low Carbon Integrated Energy Systems with Enhanced Privacy Preservation	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting Surfaces (STARS) for Multi-functional 6G	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Near-field Communications and Sensing for 6G	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Next-Generation Wireless Transmission Technologies	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Deep Learning for Enhanced Neural Decoding in Real-Time Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs)	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Predicting User Performance for Enhanced Brain-Computer Interfaces	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Virtual-Reality Enhanced BCI Neurofeedback for Stress Management	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Enhancing Arithmetic Efficiency in Lattice-Based Post-Quantum Cryptography Hardware Accelerators	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Software-Defined FHE: Rethinking Homomorphic Encryption Libraries via Software-Defined Arithmetic Optimizations	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Side-channel analysis countermeasure of Quantum Safe implementations on hardware (aims to FPGA)	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Effectiveness of micro shuffling to Side-channel analysis in Quantum Safe implementations on microcontroller for light-weighted crypto implementation	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Side-channel analysis countermeasure of Quantum Safe implementations on microcontroller	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Explainable machine learning (ML) models for side-channel analysis (SCA)	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Addressing Challenges of Multi-Modal Data Analysis in Application to Precision Medicine	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Advanced AI Methods for Analysing Nutritional Influences on Cognitive and Mental Health	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Data and Knowledge Dual-Driven Artificial Intelligence in Remote Sensing	PHD	Full-time: 4 Years
Digital Twins for Empirical Elasticity between the Edge and Cloud	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Chatbot for Dynamic Data-Oriented Serverless Edge Computing	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Managing Technical Debt in Research Software	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Precomputation Attack Resilient Password based Authentication System Design	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Secure Record Linkage	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Secure searching over sensitive data in a multi-client setting	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Creating Synthetic Data and Data Augmentation for Cyber Security Applications using AI	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Enhancing Chronic Disease Prediction Through AI-Driven Clinical Information Extraction from Electronic Health Records	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Utilising Vision-Language Models for Remote Sensing Analysis	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Citizen-Led Gen Ai Governance: Models, Tools and Practice	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Empowering Mothers: AI-Enhanced Personalized Management of Gestational Diabetes	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Breaking Barriers: AI-Powered Sign Language Translation for Enhanced Healthcare Access for the Deaf	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Transforming Healthcare: A Vision-Language Model for Medical Image Analysis and Report Generation	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
A light-weight deep learning model for detecting heart abnormalities	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Multi-Object Visual Tracking (MOT) of Animals in Agriculture	PHD	Full-time: 4 years
Connecting Privacy and Security Regulations with Software Engineering – Requirements, Specifications and Applications	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Modelling Attack Scenarios for Proactive Defense in Space Cybersecurity	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
AI-Driven Identification of Tumour-Specific Enhancer Networks for Precision Oncology	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Leveraging Transformer Models for Tumour-Specific Enhancer Prediction and Analysis	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Developing true gigapixel analysis of whole slide histopathology images using deep learning	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Exploring security protection for machine learning solutions in O-RAN	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Can We Have It All? Exploring the Trade-Offs to Achieve Trustworthy AI in Future Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI-Driven Multimodal Framework for Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Reasoning	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Multimodal Hashing for scalable video retrieval	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
AI-Aided Resilience for Agriculture Threatening by Climate Change in The Mekong River Delta	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Early warning systems for tropical diseases using Artificial Intelligence	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Uncertainty Quantification in CPS with Quantum Threat Modelling	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) for disaggregated networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Evolutionary learning and its brain-inspired computing implementation	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Trustworthy Brain-inspired Computing System Design	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Efficient brain-inspired LLM algorithm/hardware design	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Brain-inspired Hardware-algorithm Co-design Framework	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Data-efficient deep generative models	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
AI-Assisted Accelerator Design for FPGA technologies	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Efficient Accelerator for Autonomous Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Resilient, Real-Time, Approximate ML&AI Accelerators Design	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Software Engineering for Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning (SE4AI/ML)	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Intelligent Big Data Management	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Sociopsychological Software Engineering (Explainable Software Engineering)	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
IoT-native Software Engineering	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Exploring Security and Privacy Risks of Large Language Models	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Exploring Generative AI for Offensive and Defensive Cybersecurity: Risks and Opportunities in Malware Detection and Exploitation Generation	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
The Responsible Use of Generative AI When Working With Creative Stories of Lived Experience	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Mental Models of Story Thinking and Computational Thinking	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Enhancing the Parallel Scalability of Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Machine Learning-Based Prediction	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
High-Performance Graph Processing	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Causal Network Analysis for Compliance Management	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Signature Learning for Object Detection Using Attention Mechanisms	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Self-supervised summarisation of hyperspectral image data	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Learning to engineer drugs	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Edge Intelligence: Neuro-Optimisers on the Edge	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Neuro Combinatory Optimisers (NCOs) for Cloud Computing Platforms	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Open SecuRe NeTworks (CDT-FORT) - Space/Terrestrial Comms and Security	PHD	Full-time: 4 years
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Open SecuRe NeTworks (CDT-FORT) - Trustworthy AI for Secure Future Open Networks	PHD	Full-time: 4 years
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Open SecuRe NeTworks (CDT-FORT) - Secure and Trustworthy Hardware	PHD	Full-time: 4 years
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Open SecuRe NeTworks (CDT-FORT) - AI-assisted Physical Layer Security	PHD	Full-time: 4 years
Retinomorphic Event-Driven Computer Vision	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
TinyML for UAV Inference	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Adaptive Virtual Reality	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
AI for Adaptation and Evaluation of Quantum Positioning Systems for Autonomous Vehicles	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years
Generative AI to create human-like movements: penalty kicks in football	PHD	Full-time: 3 or 3.5 years

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