neural 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 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.

Optimisation methods for (deep) neural networks

Brunel University London
Computer Science

Dr C Grosan

Applications accepted all year round

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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.

A machine learning algorithm can be viewed as a mapping between inputs and outputs, with the scope of optimising and tuning the parameters that describe it so that the performance is improved.

Scalable and Energy-Efficient Multi-Building and Multi-Floor Indoor Localisation/Navigation based on Deep Neural Networks with a Multivariate Database

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

Dr K Kim

Applications accepted all year round

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PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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.

The candidate should have a first class or upper second class honours degree, or a master’s degree (or equivalent qualification), in Evidence of good spoken and written English is essential.

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.

PhD Scholarship in Modelling Statistical Uncertainty in Convolutional Neural Networks

University of Sussex
School of Engineering and Informatics

Dr I Simpson

Application Deadline: 30 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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.

In the real world, decisions are typically made under some level of uncertainty as we rarely have access to perfect information or complete knowledge about a problem.

Deep neural networks for omni-modality MSK image analysis

University of Sydney
ARC Training Centre for Innovative BioEngineering

Dr A Kumar, Prof D Feng, Assoc Prof J Kim, Prof M Fulham

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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.

Proposed Training. The project will provide advanced technical training in the optimisation of deep neural networks for computerised medical image analysis to transform current clinical approaches lo image-based biomarker discovery.

Biologically-Plausible Continual Learning

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science

Dr K Chen

Applications accepted all year round

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PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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 is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but potential funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Continual learning (aka lifelong learning) refers to a problem on how a learning system learns multiple tasks in succession over the lifespan where later tasks do not degrade the performance of the system learned for the earlier tasks and, ideally, the system can leverage the knowledge learned in previous tasks to facilitate learning the new tasks better.

Generative Adversarial Networks for Rare Event Augmentation

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Mathematics

Prof O Jones, Dr V Knight

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.

This project will produce synthetic data generation methods for creating synthetic data in data-limited situations, allowing the user to subsequently apply modern data intensive techniques, and hence make better decisions.

PhD in Computing Science - Towards all-optical neural networks

University of Glasgow
College of Science and Engineering

Dr A Turpin, Prof R Murray-Smith

Application Deadline: 30 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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 research project is one of a number of projects at this institution. It is in competition for funding with one or more of these projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be awarded the funding. The funding is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Background. The University of Glasgow (UofG) is home to world-leading research in the fields of imaging and computing science. UofG is also home to the UK Hub for Quantum Imaging Technologies, QuantIC (https://quantic.ac.uk/) who are funding this PhD research project.

Applied Machine Learning And Cybersecurity

Edinburgh Napier University
School of Computing

Dr C Chrysoulas, Dr N Pitropakis

Application Deadline: 7 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 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.

Today, it’s impossible to deploy effective cybersecurity defence layers without relying heavily on machine learning. There are several reasons why machine learning considered so crucial to cybersecurity.

How artificial intelligence can improve nuclear physics?

University of York
Department of Physics

Research Group: Nuclear Physics

Dr A Pastore, Dr C Barton

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 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.

In recent years, thanks to the remarkable progress in the domain of artificial intelligence, we have now at our disposal very powerful tools to help our scientific investigation.

Biologically-plausible neural network models of movement control algorithms

University of Sheffield
Department of Computer Science

Dr A Gilra

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.

A number of neural network implementations of control theory algorithms have been proposed, especially with the recent rise of machine learning.

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

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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.

Self-Supervised Learning and Variational Inference for adaptation in Deep Learning

Aberdeen University
Department of Computing Science

Dr G Leontidis

Application Deadline: 1 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

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.

We are looking for a highly motivated prospective PhD student to undergo a 3-year fully funded PhD project on Machine/Deep Learning foundations/theory and applications within the Department of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen (UoA).

BioVision: bio-inspired computer vision using deep architectures (Advert Reference: SF19/EE/CIS/BELATRECHE)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Dr A Belatreche, Dr F Khelifi

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 primate visual system outperforms the existing automated vision systems in almost all measures.