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We have 29 PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Securing Agentic AI: Trustworthy Delegation and Accountable Actions

Securing Agentic AI. Trustworthy Delegation and Accountable Actions. How can we trust AI agents to act on our behalf when they interact with untrusted information, external tools, and other agents?. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Wang, Dr M Mustafa
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Exploring Novel and Unfamiliar Data Visualisations

Each year, research explores new ways to visualise data. Read more
 Supervisors: Mr G Strain, Prof C Jay, Prof A Stewart, Dr P Warren
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Resource-Efficient Execution of Data Centre-Grade Workloads with Lightweight Operating Systems on Emerging Capability Hardware

Modern data-centre workloads (e.g., agentic AI) demand strong security guarantees and high performance, which come today at a high resource cost. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr P Olivier, Dr P Petoumenos
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Advancing Computer Graphics through AI-Driven Neural Rendering

AI for the Future of Computer Graphics. Computer graphics is increasingly being transformed by Artificial Intelligence. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Montazeri, Dr M Sun
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Verified and reproducible execution of AI models

The existing software infrastructure for the training, testing, and deployment of AI models such as neural networks has an inherent weakness. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr E Manino, Dr LC Cordeiro
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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[School of Engineering PhD Scholarships] Advancing Symbolic AI for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Generalised Adaptive Content Extraction and Reuse for Ontologies

Automated content extraction methods provide useful resources for backend-processing in knowledge processing system, and they greatly ease tasks of knowledge engineers in creating, updating and generally maintaining knowledge bases but also of reusing their content and creating new services. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr R Schmidt, Dr J Chen
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Task-Oriented Communication Design for Next-Generation AI-Enabled Applications

Future telecommunication networks will go beyond traditional data transmission to directly support advanced, AI-enabled applications such as autonomous robotics, intelligent video analytics, and interactive AI chatbots. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Zhao
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Embodied Brain–Computer Interfaces for Adaptive Human–AI Interaction

Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) are commonly developed as systems that translate neural signals into isolated commands, often in highly controlled laboratory settings. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr J Sun, Dr Z Li, Prof A Cangelosi
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Next Generation AI-driven Tools for Genetic Variant Extraction, Visualisation and Classification

Accurate genomic variant reporting is essential for rare disease diagnosis, yet scientific papers, clinical reports, and database submissions routinely contain erroneous variant descriptions and omit crucial clinical evidence such as ACMG scores and pathogenicity classifications. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr S Pettifer, Dr PF Freeman, Dr R Batista-Navarro
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Hybrid Event-B and Rodin

These days, the world is increasingly being populated with systems that interact directly with the physical world. Of course such systems have existed for a long time in niche safety-critical areas, eg. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Banach
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Formal Semantics of the Perfect Language

Perfect Developer, from Escher Technologies, is a language system that combines specification constructs, programming constructs, code generation and verification. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Banach
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Developing magnonic building blocks for neuromorphic computing

This PhD project will develop nanoscale devices which use magnons (collective excitations in magnetic order) as information carriers for ultra-efficient, compact, brain-inspired computing. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr W Griggs
 2 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Sensorimotor integration in neuromorphic systems

  Research Group: Neuromorphic Systems
Humans navigate complex, dynamic environments every day throughout their lifespans. They recognise objects and other humans and can interact with the environment in a seemingly natural and trivial way. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Detorakis, Prof A van Schaik
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Mechanically Checking the Semantics of Hybrid Event-B

These days, the world is increasingly being populated with systems that interact directly with the physical world. Of course such systems have existed for a long time in niche safety-critical areas, eg. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr R Banach
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)