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operating system PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 53 operating system PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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Introspection of Virtual Machines using AI

There has been a huge growth in the use of virtualised technologies for computing. This includes fully virtualised servers in the cloud, as well as more lightweight solutions such as containers and docker. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr G Russell, Assoc Prof RM McFarlane
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Self-organizing reconfigurable cellular robots created with semantically-aware autonomic elements

  Research Group: Intelligent Systems and Robotics
Machines created by humans, even state-of-the-art space systems, are mostly monolithic centralized entities that are designed for a specific purpose and to embody specific components. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr M A Post, Prof A M Tyrrell
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Edge-Cloud Collaborative Motion Planning for Autonomous Navigation with Large Language Models

Project Summary. Join our cutting-edge research to develop efficient edge-cloud collaborative motion planning systems for autonomous navigation. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr H Lakany, Dr I Sandall
 30 April 2025  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Hybrid Articulated Robotic Systems for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration

  Research Group: Intelligent Systems and Robotics
Articulated joints make up much of the conventional robotic systems, however, the rigidity of these systems despite artificially enhanced safety through algorithms remains a safety concern owing to critical algorithmic limitations and failures. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr BJ Jamil
 31 March 2025  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Robust Model-based Predictive Control for Hybrid Robotic Arms

  Research Group: Intelligent Systems and Robotics
In contrast to conventional robots, hybrid (soft-rigid) robots offer enhanced interaction safety alongside sensorised, repeatable performance. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr BJ Jamil
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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Novel E2E mechanisms for mobile devices

Using several messenger applications like Signal where data are not backed up or stored reduces the chance of messages being accessed, but the main problem of the data being created and consumed in cleartext on end devices remains. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof LM Maglaras
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD in Mechanical Engineering - Modelling Flexible Nuclear Power Plant Integration in Future Low Carbon Energy Systems

The increasing penetration of intermittent renewable power within the UK energy network will require additional flexibility from conventional sources of generation, such as nuclear power plants. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof DF Flynn, Dr AT Taha
 31 May 2025  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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High range resolution LIDAR for Remote Object Identification and Rangefinding

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 Supervisor: Prof G Buller
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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New processes to enable X in the loop simulations for the reduction of vehicle prototypes

X in the loop (XiL) methods are an approach of system simulation whereby part of the system is physical hardware, operating on a test bench and the other part is a simulation running on a computer. Read more
 Supervisor: Prof RDB Burke
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Control and stability of renewable energy sources

  Research Group: Electrical Power Engineering
Supervisory Team. Stratis Batzelis. As a research project within the ‘Doctoral Centre for Advanced Electrical Power Engineering’, this project will explore how we can deploy unprecedented levels of renewable energy into the electric grid. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr E Batzelis
 2 June 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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SafeML-based Confidence Generation and Explainability for UAV-based Anomality Detection of Blades Surface in Offshore Wind Turbines

This PhD scholarship is offered by the EPSRC CDT in Offshore Wind Energy Sustainability and Resilience, a partnership between the Universities of Durham, Hull, Loughborough and Sheffield. The successful applicant will undertake six-month of training with the rest of the CDT cohort at the University of Hull before continuing their PhD research at Hull. Read more
 Supervisors: Dr Z Mian, Dr K Aslansefat, Prof Y Papadopoulos
 9 May 2025  PhD Research Project  Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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Effect of zinc and hydrogen on high-temperature water oxidation behaviour in light water reactor steam generator materials

Effect of zinc and hydrogen on high-temperature water oxidation behaviour in light water reactor steam generator materials. A world-class environment for your research degree. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr TM Martin
 15 April 2025  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)
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Advanced Air Foil Journal Bearing Rotor System Dynamics - Time Transient & Limit Cycle Orbit Simulation

Air foil bearings (AFBs, also known as foil air bearings or gas foil bearings) are the key enablers of environmentally-friendly oil-free turbomachinery, including hydrogen fuel cell turbomachines. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr P Bonello
 2 May 2025  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)
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AD design and operating strategies for energy demand matching in the face of non-uniform feedstock availability and composition

In the urban environment at the household to institutional-scale the availability and composition of waste biomass feedstocks, suitable for biogas production, is likely to vary on a variety of timescales. Read more
 Supervisors: Prof M Pourkashanian, Prof W Nimmo, Prof L Ma
 Year round applications  PhD Research Project  Self-Funded PhD Students Only
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PhD Studentship in Energy Efficient Mobile Networking Systems

One fully funded, full-time PhD position to work with Prof. Mahesh Marina in the Networked Systems Research Group at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Read more
 Supervisor: Dr M Marina
 30 April 2025  PhD Research Project  Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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