cybersecurity PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Communication Efficiency for Federated Learning in Critical Infrastructure

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Federated learning is a machine learning approach that enables multiple parties to collaborate in developing a shared model while safeguarding the distribution and privacy of their data. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Moradpoor

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Addressing Scalability Issues in Federated Learning for Critical Infrastructure

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Federated learning is a machine learning approach that enables multiple parties to collaborate in developing a shared model while safeguarding the distribution and privacy of their data. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Moradpoor

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Security of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The rise of Electric Vehicles (EVs) drives an increase in demand and rapid development of the charging infrastructure, where a charger interconnects with an EV and a charging provider as well as a site controller to authorise charging sessions and report any errors. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Prof A Al-Dubai

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The great leap forward in wireless communications technology drives the recent advancements of Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs). Read more

Supervisor: Dr Z Tan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts for the Security of Internet of Things and Wireless Communications

University of Bradford Faculty of Engineering & Digital Technologies

Research Group: Applied Computing

The broadcast nature of Wi-Fi has made the wireless access open to new forms of cyber attacks against the IEEE 802.11 standard protocol. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Ghafir

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Multiple PhD project topics available around Trustworthy AI-enabled multimodal assistive hearing and conversational technologies

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Flexible PhD project topics are available as part of the prestigious UK EPSRC funded Programme Grant. COG-MHEAR, led by Programme Director, Professor Amir Hussain. Read more

Supervisors: Prof AH Hussain, Mr MG Gogate

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Safeguarding the Internet of Things: A Machine Learning Driven Security Paradigm

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The integration of Machine Learning (ML) techniques within the domain of Internet of Things (IoT) security has emerged as a critical research area due to the escalating risks posed by sophisticated cyber threats. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BG Ghaleb, Prof A Al-Dubai, Dr IW Wadhaj

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Security and Privacy in Quantum Cryptography

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The project is going to explore the existing security attacks related to Quantum Cryptography, such as Collective, Coherent and Symmetric Collective attacks. Read more

Supervisor: Dr ZS Siddiqui

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Secure V2V Communication for self-driving NETworks

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The project aims at designing an integrated end-to-end VANET (+ UAV) Simulation Framework which gets feedback from relevant traffic applications that actually simulate a realistic VANET environment. Read more

Supervisors: Prof LM Maglaras, Prof B Buchanan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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On-the-go EV charging methods

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The promise of electric cars is tempered by the pragmatic reality that they are limited in range and hampered by a lack of charging infrastructure. Read more

Supervisors: Prof LM Maglaras, Dr Z Tan

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Trusted Evidence Gathering and Timeline For Law Enforcement

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

A current weakness in many evidence gathering infrastructures is the handling of digital evidence bags, and how they are handled through criminal investigations and for insurance purposes. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Leimich

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D.

Rochester Institute of Technology USA Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering

Offered jointly by the department of electrical and microelectronic engineering and the department of computer engineering, students in RIT’s Ph.D. Read more

Supervisor: Prof AK Kwasinski

Year round applications PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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School of Computing Science

University of Glasgow

The School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow is offering studentships to support PhD research for students starting in October 2024… Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) Computing PhD Programme

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Development and Validation of Security Metrics and Predictive Models for Blockchain Ecosystems

Brunel University London Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Background. Blockchain technology is a transformative innovation that has the potential to disrupt various sectors including finance, healthcare, and governance. Read more

Supervisor: Dr G Destefanis

Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

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