computer networks PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

One fully funded PhD position to work with Dr Tariq Elahi in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, in the area of in Privacy Systems and Networks.

Trustworthy Security Systems

University of Bradford
Faculty of Engineering and Informatics

Research Group: Communication and Networks

Prof IU Awan, Dr S Konur

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Cyber Security is becoming more and more important with the increasing integration of communication interfaces in various network systems, such as vehicular ad-hoc networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, controller areas networks and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

Cyber Attacks Mitigation: Detecting Malicious Activities in Network Traffic

University of Bradford
Faculty of Engineering and Informatics

Research Group: Communication and Networks

Dr I Ghafir

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Cyber attacks have become more widespread and several attacks have made headline news over the past decade, targeting industrial companies and governmental organizations.

PhD Studentship on Complex Networks

Queen Mary University of London
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science

Dr R Clegg

Application Deadline: 15 July 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Applications are invited for a full PhD Studentship starting in September 2020 to undertake research in the area of Complex Networks.

Acoustic mesh communication system

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Dr X Wang

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU), located in the paradise city Suzhou, is a unique research led university formed by two prestigious universities – Liverpool University in the UK and Xi’an Jiaotong University in China.

Deep Learning on Dynamic Networks

University of Liverpool
School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science

Dr X Yi, Assoc Prof CS Liao

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

This project is part of a 4-year Dual PhD degree programme between the National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan) and the University of Liverpool (England).

Designing nanomachines using computer simulations and artificial intelligence

University College London
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Dr A Saric

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

We are looking for highly motivated students to join our interdisciplinary team for an exciting project at the interface of physics, computer science, and biology.

Computational neuroscience: Statistical signal processing for multivariate neuronal data, Neural computing with Spiking neural networks.

University of York
Department of Electronic Engineering

Research Group: Intelligent Systems and Nanoscience

Dr D Halliday

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

How does the human brain work? As you read this text, the pixels on your screen are converted into a series of spike trains passing along the neural pathways in your brain, allowing you to understand the content.

Complex network analysis and resilience in large-scale multi-layer networks (Application Ref: SF19/EE/CIS/SHANG)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Dr Y Shang, Prof A Bouridane

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The goal of this project is to investigate and develop new data science approaches to model large-scale networks.

Towards an open-source, equipment-agnostic framework for automated welfare monitoring in the home cage

University of Lincoln
School of Computer Science

Dr J Brown, Prof X Ye

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Mice are the most widely used model organism in all of science. In 2018, 60% of all experimental procedures performed in the UK were carried out using mice, amounting to more than 2.5 million procedures in total.

Dstl Research PhD Studentship: Resilient, ultra-dense mesh networks for infrastructureless communications

University of York
Department of Electronic Engineering

Research Group: Communication Technologies

Prof A Burr

Application Deadline: 31 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

There are many situations in which high rate, reliable wireless communications are crucial but where the necessary infrastructure (base stations, etc) is either unavailable, non-existent or damaged.

Deep-learning computer vision for tracking animals with UAVs/drones

University of York
Department of Computer Science

Dr DW Franks

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Research areas. Deep learning; Machine learning; Computer vision. Modern UAV / drone technology offers a non-invasive approach to recording animals in the wild.

Development of Convolutional Neural Networks and Associated Error Estimation Techniques for Vertebral Segmentation in Axial Computed Tomography Image Slices

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr N Thacker, Dr P Bromiley

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Osteoporosis is a common skeletal disorder that increases the risk of fractures and causes significant morbidity and mortality. Vertebral fractures (VFs) are often an early manifestation of osteoporosis but are significantly under-diagnosed in clinical practice.

Smart Energy Infrastructure for Future Power Networks PhD

Cranfield University
School of Water, Energy and Environment (SWEE)

Dr X Zhang, Prof W Guo

Application Deadline: 1 August 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship to cover tuition fees* plus stipend of £18,000 per year for three years, to be undertaken in the Centre of Energy Systems and Strategy at Cranfield University, in the field of power and energy systems.

PhD studentship in Optimisation of Bayesian Networks and Probabilistic Models for Hardware Acceleration

Imperial College London
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Dr C-S Bouganis

Application Deadline: 30 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

The focus of this project is to investigate and develop methodologies and approximation schemes for the efficient mapping of probabilistic models such as Bayesian Neural Networks on low-power embedded devices such as CPUs, NPUs, and FPGAs.