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computer science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 893 computer science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Secure Software Development and AI Security Methods, Tooling, and Assurance

The Blockchain Identity Lab (BIL) supports world-leading research in cryptography, distributed ledgers, privacy-preserving technologies, and sovereign identity such as decentralised identifiers and verifiable credentials. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr PP Papadopoulos, Prof B Buchanan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Privacy-preserving Systems around Security, Trust and Identity

Blockpass and the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University have set up an advanced Blockchain Identity Lab (BIL), which supports world-leading research related to cryptography, blockchain, distributed ledger technologies, privacy-preserving machine learning, and their linkage to sovereign identities such as decentralised identities and verifiable credentials. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr PP Papadopoulos, Prof B Buchanan
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Explainable AI using human-computer dialogue

  Research Group: Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
Project Details. Abstract . With the rise of autonomous intelligent technology, the ability to explain why a particular action was proposed or taken is more urgent than ever. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MWA Caminada, Dr R Booth
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD in Medical AI: Multimodal Learning, Generative AI, Foundation Models, Digital Twins, VLMs and LLMs

Do you want to shape the future of healthcare with cutting-edge AI? Join us to develop the next generation of trustworthy and clinically deployable Medical AI. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Q Meng
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Designing Meaningful Mixed Reality Experiences

The aim of this research project is to investigate the design of Mixed Reality Experiences, with the long-term objective of investigating how they can be designed, developed and deployed in engaging, impactful, and ultimately more meaningful ways, in any given application context. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr DD Darzentas, Dr HW Wagner
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Creepy Office: Using speculative design methods to explore privacy, security and ethical considerations for connected workplaces

  Research Group: Cybersecurity, Privacy and HCC Research Section
Project Description. Background. Our workplaces are becoming increasingly connected. While this enables remote work and can improve accessibility, it can also introduce potential issues related to workplace surveillance. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr K Stawarz, Dr S Gould, Dr A Ramirez Gomez
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Investigating the fidelity of real-world data transformation into Common Data Models: novel measures for the assessment of OMOP data standardisation as a case study (Botnar-2026-05)

Real-world data (RWD), routinely collected across various healthcare settings, are increasingly used in observational studies, which are now recognised as valuable complements to traditional randomised controlled trials for informing patient care, healthcare delivery, and policy-making. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr A Delmestri, Assoc Prof S Kiefer, Dr M Pineda-Moncusí
 1 December 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Foundation Models for Tactical Understanding in Football (FOUND-Football)

Project Description. The increasing availability of high-resolution football tracking data has transformed performance analysis, yet most existing machine learning approaches remain task-specific, league-dependent, and poorly transferable. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr O Karakus, Dr P Corcoran, Prof P Atkinson
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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[School of Natural Sciences PhD Scholarships] Advancing the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) through Data Science and Emulation

How can we make urban climate modelling faster and more accessible? This PhD project will use environmental data science to advance the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), a core component of the UK’s national weather, climate and environmental modelling infrastructure. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr ZZ Zheng, Dr D Topping
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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PhD Research in Environmental Science

  Research Group: advanced computational science
The Advanced Computing and Emerging Systems (ACES) Group (https://research.reading.ac.uk/aces/) invites applications from prospective PhD students interested in the future of how we process and manage environmental information. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr A Guedes
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Multiagent Market Design for Circular Industrial Symbiosis

Supervisory Team. Dr Vahid Yazdanpanah. This project uses game theory, agent-based modelling and mechanism design to support circular industrial symbiosis, where one company’s waste becomes another’s resource. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Yazdanpanah
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Unifying distributional and distribution-free uncertainty quantification for trustworthy medical decisions

Supervisors. Dr. Nery Riquelme-Granada, Prof. Gabriela Czanner, Prof. Mahesan Niranjan. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr N Riquelme-Granada
 31 January 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Automated verification and synthesis using coalgebras

Supervisory Team. Dr Corina Cirstea. This project will make advances to the areas of automated verification and synthesis, by generalising existing techniques to match the complexity of modern software agents. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr C Cirstea
 31 March 2027  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Responsibility gaps and AI safety in multiagent systems

Supervisor. Dr Vahid Yazdanpanah. This project will develop computational methods to detect responsibility gaps, attribute collective failures, and support safer oversight of multiagent systems under uncertainty and partial observability. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr V Yazdanpanah
 30 November 2026  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Autonomous Multi-Agent Cyber Defence at Scale: Detection, Coordination and Response

  Research Group: Cybersecurity, Privacy and HCC Research Section
Project Description. AI-driven cyber defence systems promise faster detection and response, but real deployments remain constrained by limited scalability and weak coordination across distributed environments. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr TL Li, Dr Y Li
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only