Computer Science & IT (equality) PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

(A*STAR) Developing Privacy Enhancing Digital Health Data Sharing

The University of Manchester Department of Computer Science

Machine learning is extremely pervasive today, especially in the health data domain where highly privacy sensitive user data is used. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Mustafa, Dr G Brown

31 January 2021 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

The Machines and the Heart: Intelligent Heart Disease Prediction by Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

University of Liverpool Department of Eye and Vision Science

This is a funded PhD position in applied medical imaging and deep learning to heart diseases, suited to candidates with an applied mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering, medical imaging, biomedical engineering, physics or equivalent MSc/BSc degree. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Y Zheng, Prof GYH Lip

19 February 2021 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Security and privacy in IoT systems

The University of Manchester Department of Computer Science

. Internet of Things (IoT) systems have entered our everyday life in various application scenarios. They range from personalised health care utilising data from users' wearable devices to smart manufacturing deploying data from all types of smart sensors embedded within the manufacturing processes. Read more

Supervisors: Dr M Mustafa, Dr LC Cordeiro

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

Chaos-based Multimedia Encryption and Watermarking Schemes

Supervisors: Dr J Ahmad, Prof B Buchanan

For two decades, numerous researchers have reported a close relationship between chaos and cryptography. Encryption based on chaos theory (for example logistic and tent maps) has several characteristics such as pseudo randomness, ergodicity and strong dependence on initial conditions etc. Read more

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

Combining the strengths of competing automated protein model building tools through open research.

University of York Department of Chemistry

Background. Building an atomic model into an electron density map is a key stage in the solution of 3D structures by X-ray or EM methods. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K D Cowtan

Open Day(s) Year round applications PhD Research Project Self-Funded PhD Students Only

Dynamic algorithmic impact assessment to promote an ethical use of AI in businesses

Supervisors: Dr A Gardner, Dr M Ortolani

Machine Learning is a highly active area of research and many new artificial intelligence algorithms are already being implemented. Read more

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

Diversity in Computer Science and Engineering - A Data Science Approach

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

There is increasing concern about a “diversity crisis” in disciplines such as engineering, data science and software development. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Woolley

A1, machine learning and data science techniques to improve healthcare of patients using artifical-limb prothesis

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

Automated, movable artificial limbs (prostheses) are now technologically feasible. A limiting factor on the usefulness of these prostheses is the automated control of their movements. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C R Day

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Biomedical Data

Supervisor: Prof P Andras

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are the leading edge approaches to data driven problems across all areas of life, technology and sciences. Read more

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

Evolutionary Robotics: using evolution to generate robust robot control systems

Supervisor: Dr Adam Stanton

Evolutionary Robotics has a long history as an alternative to mainstream approaches to the design of robot morphologies and control systems. Read more

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

Ensemble approaches to creating generalised meta-heuristic solvers - Project ID SOC0024

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

It well known that for practically any combinatorial optimisation problem that has been studied, different instances are best solved using different algorithms. Read more

Supervisor: Prof E Hart

Evolutionary Robotics - Project ID SOC0023

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

Evolutionary Robotics aims to apply evolutionary computation techniques to evolve the overall design or controllers, or both, for real and simulated autonomous robots. Read more

Supervisor: Prof E Hart

The Evolution of Institutions for Resolving Social Dilemmas - Project ID SOC0011

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

Social dilemmas occur frequently in human societies. They are situations where there is a conflict between what is good for one individual versus what is good for the group as a whole. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Powers

A new approach to engineering secure microservices-based applications with blockchain and distributed ledger technologies - Project ID SOC0005

Supervisors: Dr Z Jaroucheh, Prof X Liu, Dr J Ahmad

Applications are invited for a self-funded PhD studentship within the School of Computing. The studentship is expected to start in March 2020 but applications are considered year round. Read more

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