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engineering management PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 333 engineering management PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Guiding & Evaluating Conversational AI in LLMs using Formal Dialogue Models

Formal dialogue models have been developed over the last several decades to shed light on the conversational practises of people in a wide range of communicative contexts. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr S Wells
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Gendered perspectives of data science

This is an open call for research proposals related to gendered perspectives of data science. Diversity is vital to data science, given its crucial role in understanding the world, communicating information, and guiding behaviour. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr KF Fabian
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Shrinking LLMs using Principled Training Approaches

Large Language Models (LLMs) are machine learning models trained for general-purpose tasks that can be modelled using text, images, or both. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MU Ullah , Dr D Gkatzia
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Query Performance Prediction in Context of Conversational Search

Query performance prediction (QPP) is a crucial task in information retrieval (IR) that estimates the effectiveness of a search system for a given query without requiring human relevance judgments. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr MU Ullah , Dr D Gkatzia
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Enhancing User Support for Complex Online Information Tasks

In situations where users are faced with online tasks that require to follow a linear process, such as visa applications or medical health checks, current online facilities offer sufficient support. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr D Brazier, Dr JPV Vargheese
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The social impact of mis-information or dis-information

This is an open call for research proposals related to topics of mis-information or dis-information in social influence. Proposals should focus on the ways in which mis- and dis-information impact human information behaviours and practices in a social or societal context. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr FR Ryan, Dr D Brazier
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Gaming for Sustainability: Investigating Behaviour Change through Immersive Play

As the climate emergency intensifies, the need for widespread behavioural change has never been more urgent. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr AM Morton
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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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
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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
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Mitigating LLM-Generated Disinformation via Machine Unlearning: Toward Safer Generative AI

False and harmful narratives propagated by large language models threaten the integrity of information in elections, public health, and crisis response. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Dr YY Yu
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Forensic storage carving using AI

n computer forensics, investigators need to be able to analyse the contents of storage devices. Such devices generally store information in blocks, and the arrangement of blocks in a certain order is the thing which represents a files. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Russell, Dr S McKeown
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Ransomware and Extortion-based Attack Simulation and Detection

Edinburgh Napier University’s research Centre for Cyber Security focuses on applied research in areas of threat analysis and detection, digital forensic triage, trust, identity and cryptography, and has had successful real world impact with several spin-out companies. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof RM Macfarlane, Dr S McKeown
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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
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Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot

The ring-necked parakeet Psittacula krameri is one of the world’s most successfully introduced species. Native to the Indian sub-continent and sub-Saharan Africa, this species is the UK’s only naturalised parrot, and populations are continuing to increase rapidly across Europe. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr AEL Leedale
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Development of numerical methods using evolutionary computation techniques

Advances in AI-based techniques, including differential evolution, mimetic, and other evolutionary algorithms, facilitate the design of new sophisticated optimisation algorithms to develop novel numerical methods for the efficient solution of differential equations (DEs) more efficiently and rapidly than existing numerical approaches. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr Z Anastassi
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