PhD Studentships

Postgraduate Studentships

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
Secure satellite constellation system	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Remote Healthcare Security	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Information security establishment using computer architectural solution	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
A Trusted Execution Environment based framework for securing legacy embedded systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Lightweight Post Quantum Cryptography on modern open-source RISC-V processors	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Fault tolerant post quantum cryptography systems for satellite communications	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Explainable AI for Hardware Security	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Hardware Security for Approximate Computing	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Homomorphic encryption: Approximating and Accelerating Privacy-Preserving computation	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Using Quantum-safe technologies to improve Cyber security	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Advanced manufacturing of mm-wave lens antennas for future wireless technologies	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Intelligent AI electromagnetic environment for communication and sensing within 6G	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
3D manufacturing of glass microstructures using direct laser writing	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
A Secure Networking Platform for IoT Data Streams	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Digital Twins for Human-Robot Collaboration in Remanufacturing	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Resilient Risk-Aware Autonomy for Legged Robots	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Advanced Beamforming Hardware at Millimeter-waves: Antenna Design Choice & Characterization	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Ultrawideband Antenna Arrays for 5G/6G applications	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Secure Satellite Retrodirective Communications using Post-quantum Cryptography	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Reachability-driven safe planning in robotics	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Resilience and Safety for Cybersecure Industrial Control Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Antennas for Integrated Communications and Sensing	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
4D Printed Electromagnetic Structures	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Design of safe autonomous heavy equipment	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Provision of Dynamic Distribution System Services from Battery Energy Storage	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Synchronous Inertia Response from Inverter Connected Energy Sources	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Millimeter wave superdirective antenna arrays printed on lightweight, flexible materials.	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Beyond diagonal reconfigurable intelligent surfaces	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Integrated sensing and communications for massive MIMO	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Intelligent systems techniques for improving manufacturing competitiveness and sustainability	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
AI enabled automated detection and assessment of Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Predicting User Performance for Enhanced Brain-Computer Interfaces	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Leveraging Advanced Machine Learning Methods for Brain-Computer Interface-Based Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation.	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Efficient Computing with Software-Defined Computer Arithmetic	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Efficient Machine Learning on Encrypted Data via Low-Level Arithmetic Optimizations	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Side-channel analysis and countermeasure on Lightweight Post Quantum Cryptographic	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Integrated Side-channel analysis in Physical Uncloneable Function	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Responsible and explainable AI for precision medicine	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Advancing understanding of rare diseases via AI driven methods	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Getting to know your GPT: Investigating the Representation and Retrieval of Semantic Knowledge in Foundation Models of Language	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Using AI and High Performance Computing in Marine Engineering	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Tools and techniques for educating educators of developers	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Understanding Software Evolution Data (USED)	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Fact-checking with a Conscience: Towards Responsible Fake News Detection	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Responsible Algorithms for Platform Cooperativism	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Digital Twins for Empirical Elasticity between the Edge and Cloud	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Chatbot for Dynamic Data-Oriented Serverless Edge Computing	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Energy-Scalable Bio-Signal Analysis and Embedded AI for Smart Health Monitoring	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Energy-Scalable AI Architectures for Resource-Constrained Edge Devices	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Exploring Security and Privacy Risks of Large Language Models	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Bio-Artificial Vision: Building an Artificial Vision System Using Biological Retinal Ganglion Cell Spike Train	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Secure Record Linkage	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Precomputation Attack Resilient Password based Authentication System Design	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Event-Driven Computer Vision: Algorithms & Programmable Hardware	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Evolving Computer Hardware for Machine Learning	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Enhancing Chronic Disease Prediction Through AI-Driven Clinical Information Extraction from Electronic Health Records	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Data and knowledge dual-driven artificial intelligence in remote sensing	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Responsibility Debt and SE Practice (ResponSE)	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Resilience and Burnout: A Game-Play, Solution-Focused Approach For Software Practitioners	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Causal Representation Learning for Decision Support Systems: Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) Management Empowerment via Interventions	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
End-To-End Sign Language Translation into spoken language	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Malware detection beyond labelled datasets	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Automated Security of AI using Explainable AI	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Vulnerability Prioritization & Contextualization	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Approximate Matching Algorithm for Digital Forensics and Threat Hunting	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Drone Security Assurance	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Understanding the Effect of Digital Evolution on Threat Design for Cross-Platform Malware Detection	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Understanding Over-Parameterized ML Models	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Developing true gigapixel analysis of whole slide histopathology images using deep learning	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Can we have it all? Exploring the trade-offs to achieve trustworthy AI in future networks	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Drought patterns: Analysing drought situation in Mekong River Delta	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Early warning systems for tropical diseases using Artificial Intelligence	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Security of 6G-enabled Unified Traffic Management (UTM) Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Evaluating adversarial strengths of the AI algorithms	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Quantifying uncertainty for risk assessment in cyber-physical systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Security, Privacy and Governance in AI-assisted Unmanned Aerial Surveillance	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Energy Efficient Accelerator for Autonomous Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Energy Efficient and Trustworthy in Multi-modal Federated Learning	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Approximate Versatile Tensor Accelerator on Heterogeneous Systems	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Resilient, Real-Time, Approximate AI Accelerators Design	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
AI-Assisted Accelerator Design for FPGA technologies	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Software Engineering for Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning (SE4AI/ML)	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
IoT-native Software Engineering	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Big Data Gravity and Friction Management	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
The responsible use of generative AI when working with creative stories of lived experience	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Using stories to evaluate the limits of generative AI and large language models, and to promote the continued value of human-interference	PHD	Full-time: 3 Years
Transprecise Analytics on Dynamic Graphs	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Online performance optimisation through algorithmic choice	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Optimising Speed, Energy, and Quality of Machine Learning Models with Transprecise Computing	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Vitality Quest: Unravelling the Secrets of Super Agers	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Multimodal Video Retrieval based on Deep Learning	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Self supervised learning for information extraction and anomaly detection in scientific images	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Learning to engineer drugs	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Edge Intelligence: AI/ML-based Resource Scheduling for Edge Computing Platforms	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
AI/ML-based Content Caching for Mobile Edge Computing Platforms	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Trustworthy and Explainable AI for Autonomous Vehicles (AV)	PHD	Full-time: 3 years
Effective Digital Twin and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) Model for Autonomous Vehicle Technology 2.0	PHD	Full-time: 3 years

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