signal processing PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Self-Funded PhD 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 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.

SEBE-19-003. The proposed project aims to develop applied games driven techniques to evaluate and improve amblyopia through Social Signal Processing, Affective Computing and Machine Learning techniques.

Data Driven Information Recovery in Sensor Systems

University of Edinburgh
School of Engineering

Prof J Thompson

Application Deadline: 13 November 2019

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 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.

This PhD project will enable to researcher to study transformative technologies for rethinking how we sample and record data from a wide variety of sensors.

Event based signal processing for isotope identification at reduced power

University of Edinburgh
School of Engineering

Dr A Hamilton

Application Deadline: 10 November 2019

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 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.

Conventional detection systems typically comprise analogue sensors, analogue to digital conversion, digital signal processing and sometimes digital to analogue conversion, all driven by a synchronous clock.

Signal Processing and Machine Learning for microendoscopy sensing for in vivo pharmacology

University of Edinburgh
School of Engineering

Dr J Hopgood, Dr KD Dhaliwal

Application Deadline: 21 October 2019

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 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.

As part of a recently awarded EPSRC grant, in partnership with GSK, we are seeking an engineering student with strong signal processing, image processing or machine learning qualifications and skills to develop algorithms to improve the quality of data received from an imaging and sensing system called Kronoscan.

Computational neuroscience: neural signal processing & neural computing

University of York
Department of Electronic Engineering

Research Group: Intelligent Systems and Nanoscience

Dr D Halliday

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Self-Funded PhD 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 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 human brain is one of the most complex systems known to man. It consists of vast numbers of interacting units (called neurones) that communicate with each other using sequences of pulses (called spike trains).

PhD Studentship Opportunity in Audio for hearables: algorithms for context-aware rendering

University of Surrey
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Dr P Coleman

Application Deadline: 28 October 2019

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 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.

Media content is consumed on-the-move in many different environments. A typical commuter, while listening to music over headphones, might encounter noise levels from quiet residential streets to crowded underground carriages.

PhD Studentship Opportunity in Audio for hearables: sound analysis for context-aware rendering

University of Surrey
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Dr P Jackson

Application Deadline: 28 October 2019

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 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.

Media content is consumed on-the-move in many different environments. A typical commuter, while listening to music over headphones, might encounter noise levels from quiet residential streets to crowded underground carriages.

Privacy-assuring signal processing for the release of healthcare data

University of Essex
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Dr B Rassouli, Dr H Ahmadi, Dr L Musavian, Prof G Green

Application Deadline: 28 October 2019

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 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.

Application deadline. Monday 28 October 2019. Start date. January 2020. Lead department. School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering.

High-resolution Imaging of Near-Earth Objects and Space Debris: Real-Time Atmospheric Tomographic Signal Processing

University of Canterbury
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Dr SJ Waddell, Dr R Clare

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.

The research project is concerned with development and implementation of signal and image processing algorithms for predicting a distortion function when viewing an artificial satellite or large space debris objects thorough atmospheric turbulence and with the aid of a 60 cm to 100 cm optical telescope.

Improvements in headphone based 3-D audio using adaptive binaural signal processing and robust head-tracking

University of York
Department of Electronic Engineering

Research Group: Communication Technologies

Dr G Kearney

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Self-Funded PhD 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 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.

Design of immersive binaural surround systems requires an understanding of the perceptual cues for sound source localisation. Any source at a given angle of incidence to the head will create subtle time and level difference cues at the ears and is subject to spectral shaping due to the pinnae.