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A number of Postgraduate Research Studentship Opportunities are available within the School of Electronics Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (eligibility criteria and application deadlines may vary – please check the individual PhD opportunity for details)

Potential PhD Opportunities

Potential PhD projects in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Electrical & Electronic Engineering

PhD

3 Academic Years (Full-time)

Computer Science

PhD

3 Academic Years (Full-time)

PhD Opportunities

PhD Opportunities
Course	Qualification	Duration
Direct 48-1V High Efficiency Integrated Power Converter for AI Processor Chiplet Applications in Data Centres	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Adaptive Quasi-Class-DE Driver for Multi-Element High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Arrays for Medical Imaging	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Intelligent and environment-aware contactless health monitoring using RF signals	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Application-Specific Computer Arithmetic for Efficient SoC-Based FPGA AI Accelerators	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Privacy-Preserving AI with Enhanced Arithmetic Efficiency on SoC-Based FPGAs	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Investigation into the need and benefits of integrating Grid Forming Battery Energy Storage System (GFM-BESS) into the All-Island Power System	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Hardware assisted homomorphic encryption (HE) acceleration	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Dual-Functional Millimeter-Wave Antennas for Integrated Sensing and Communication in 6G Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Sub-Terahertz Antennas for 3D Heterogeneous Integration	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Dual-band Fusion Enhanced Integrated Sensing and Communications in Industrial Internet of Things	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Hardware Security in Artificial Intelligence Integrated IoT (AIoT)	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI-assisted Hardware Security for Heterogeneous Integration	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Toward Scalable and Trustworthy Cryptography for Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Measurements in Low Inertia Power Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Trustworthy Time Transfer for Critical National Infrastructure	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Hybrid Silicon Carbide and Graphene structures for Passive Cooling of High-Power Microelectronics Devices	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
mmWave radar-based human activity recognition and understanding	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Next-generation vital sign monitoring with AI and mmWave radar	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Real-time Control of Floating Offshore Wind Farms	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI-powered wireless sensing for scalable indoor localization	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Security Enhancing Digital Twins for Safe and Accurate Cyber Defence in Cyber-Physical Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Numerical Modelling and Nonlinear Control of Bowed Strings	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Learning-based Adaptation for Trustworthy Robotics using Visual Foundation Models	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Human-in-the-loop AI-based Resilient Risk-Aware Autonomy for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs)	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Resilient Distributed Integrated Sensing and Communication Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Waveform Design for Integrated Sensing and Communication	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Context Awareness Enhancement of Physical layer Security Schemes in Multi-user 6G Wireless Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Antenna Characterization for Advanced Beamforming Hardware at Millimeter-waves	PHD	Full-time: 3 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 Years
Real time distributed wireless power transfer	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Machine Learning Solutions for Optimising Advanced Wireless Systems Performance	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Calibrated Machine Learning for Reliability in Advanced Wireless Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Data-driven and reachability-driven planning in robotics with safety certificates	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
From automated law discovery to safe and optimal drug administration	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Site-Specific Radio Channel Modelling Enabled Environment-Aware Communications	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Generative AI for Digital Twinning in human-robot collaborative systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Understanding Radio Propagation for 6G Sub-Terahertz Multistatic Integrated Sensing and Communications in Smart Manufacturing	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Distributed Energy Resources for Transmission System Services	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Synchronous Inertia Response from Inverter Connected Energy Sources	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Flexible-Antenna Technologies for Sustainable Communication System Designs	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting Surfaces (STARS) for Energy-Efficient Communications	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Next Generation Multiple Access for Efficient Communication Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Efficient Reconfigurable Accelerator for Autonomous Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Intelligent and Secure Cell-Free Massive MIMO for Beyond 5G	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Machine Learning-Driven Integrated Sensing and Communication for Next-Generation Wireless Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI for Adaptation and Evaluation of Quantum Positioning Systems for Autonomous Vehicles	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Orbital Angular Momentum Antennas for Microwave Imaging	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Nonlocal Microwave Metasurfaces	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Cooperative control of Uncrewed Marine and Aerial Vehicles for Environmental Applications	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI-driven Radio Frequency Semiconductor On-wafer Measurement System for Future Industrial Applications	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI-Driven Spectrum Modelling for 6G Wireless Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Security and Trust in 6G AI-RAN	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Virtual-Reality Enhanced BCI Neurofeedback for Stress Management	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI-Driven Adaptive Neurofeedback for Motor Imagery Brain-Computer Interfaces	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Effectiveness of micro shuffling to Side-channel analysis in Quantum Safe implementations on microcontroller for lightweight crypto implementation	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Beyond Confidence Scores: Introspective, Sequence-Aware Runtime Monitoring for ADS Perception Safety	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Explainable machine learning (ML) models for side-channel analysis (SCA)	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Addressing Challenges of Multi-Modal Data Analysis in Application to Precision Medicine	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Advanced AI Methods for Analysing Nutritional Influences on Cognitive and Mental Health	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Quantum-Safe and Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Remote Healthcare IoT	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Federated Trust and Privacy Optimization for Decentralized IoT Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Efficient and Privacy-preserving Methods to Leverage and Improve Foundational Models for Tabular Data	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Efficient and Robust Utilization of Video-Language Foundational Models	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
A Scalable and Agile Quantum-Safe Hybrid Authenticated Key Exchange (HAKE)	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Incremental Processing for Evolving Data and Knowledge	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Privacy-Preserving and Fair Query Answering	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Enhancing Safety, Reliability, and Robustness in Large Language and Multimodal Large Language Models	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Advancing Robust Artificial Intelligence for Transformative Healthcare Applications	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Accelerating and Securing HE-Friendly ciphers for efficient privacy-preserving computation using Hardware.	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Augmenting Software Engineers with AI: Models, Methods, and Evidence for Effective Human-AI Collaboration	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Requirements Engineering in an AI Era: Investigating the Relationship Between Software Requirements and Prompt Engineering in Generative AI-assisted Development	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Autonomous Malware Classification Using Large Language Models	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Supply Chain Security for Open-Source Generative AI Models	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Machine Unlearning in Generative Models with Formal Privacy Guarantees	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Autonomous Incident Response using Responsive Segmentation in Zero Trust Architectures	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
RAIM to the Road: Multi-Sensor Fault Detection, Exclusion and Protection Levels for ADS Localisation	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Monitoring Greenhouse Gas Emissions Using Advanced Remote Sensing and Data-Driven Approaches	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Knowledge-Infused Multimodal Machine Learning for Explainable Predictive Modelling in Stroke Patients	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI Governance and Design from the Ground Up - Models, Tools and Practice	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Breaking Barriers: AI-Powered Sign Language Translation for Enhanced Healthcare Access for the Deaf	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Empowering Mothers: AI-Enhanced Personalized Management of Gestational Diabetes	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Distributed agents and their security in FinTech	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Transforming Healthcare: A Vision-Language Model for Medical Image Analysis and Report Generation	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Large Language Models for Deep Malware Understanding	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Impact Metrics and Resilient Control for Cyber-physical Control Systems under Attack	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Trustworthy Brain-inspired Computing System Design	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Genealogy of Machine Learning Models for AI Security and Model Traceability	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Adaptable Large Language Model Agents for Financial Intelligence	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Developing and Evaluating Multilingual Large Language Models	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Explainable AI for DNA Language Models: From Tokens to Context	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Towards Efficient and Interpretable DNA Foundation Models via Deep Tokenisation	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Advancing Early Mental Health Detection: A Multimodal AI Framework for Personalized and Interpretable Risk Assessment	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Underwater Target Detection	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI-Aided Resilience for Agriculture Threatening by Climate Change in The Mekong River Delta	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Early warning systems for tropical diseases using Artificial Intelligence	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Trust-explicit Systems for traceability and security in Agentic AI	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
On-chain zero-trust for disaggregated networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Near-Field Communication Security	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Evolutionary learning and its brain-inspired computing implementation	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
FERNS Doctoral Network: Energy- and precision-aware computing for disposable sensors	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Real-Time Event-Driven Analytics for Retinomorphic Cameras: Algorithms & Implementations.	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Efficient brain-inspired LLM algorithm/hardware design	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Brain-inspired Hardware-algorithm Co-design Framework	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Data-efficient deep generative models	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI-Assisted Accelerator Design for FPGA technologies	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Architecture and Design Patterns of Agentic AI Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Vibe Modelling: On AI-Empowered Model-Driven Software Engineering	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
High-Performance Graph Processing	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Code generation and performance explanation of HPC kernels	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
World Modelling for Multivariate Financial Time Series	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Learning to engineer drugs	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Physics-informed Neural Networks for Model-based Image Analysis	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI-Driven Joint Compute-Communication Optimisation in 6G Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
AI-Orchestrated Federated and Split Learning for 6G Compute Continuum	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
CDT Fort - Trustworthy AI for Secure Future Open Networks Research Theme	PHD	Full-time: 4 years, Part-time: 8 years
CDT Fort - Space/Terrestrial Comms and Security Research Theme	PHD	Full-time: 4 Years, Part-time: 8 Years
CDT Fort - AI-assisted Physical Layer Security Research Theme	PHD	Full-time: 4 Years, Part-time: 8 Years
CDT Fort - Secure and Trustworthy Hardware Research Theme	PHD	Full-time: 4 Years, Part-time: 8 Years
Collaborative Generative AI Inference in Edge Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Generative AI for Mission Planning and Decision Making in Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs)	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Neuromorphic Machine Learning for Embedded Devices at the Edge	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Cooperative AI models for introspection of Perception Models for Autonomous Vehicles	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Generative AI to create human-like movements: penalty kicks in football	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Semantics-native Communications in Wireless Networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years

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