Cyber Security PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students in Edinburgh

We have 31 Cyber Security PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students in Edinburgh

Investigating Quantum Machine Learning for Cyber Security

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is an emerging field of research that leverages quantum computing to improve the classical machine learning approach to solve complex real-world problems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr ML Lemoudden

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

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Innovating IoT Security Through Quantum Metamaterials and Artificial Intelligence

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The literature indicates significant advancements in securing IoT networks, especially against quantum computing threats. Bagchi 2023 proposes a post-quantum lattice-based secure framework called LAS-AIBIoT for ambient intelligence-assisted blockchain-based IoT applications. Read more

Supervisors: Dr LL La Spada, Prof B Buchanan

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

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Secure Code Generation with Foundation Models

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The PhD aims to evaluate the security of code generated by foundation models, with a primary focus on identifying vulnerabilities and potential threats that could pose risks to software systems and data. Read more

Supervisor: Prof AS Sami

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

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Towards an Evolving Approach to Evaluate Security Monitoring Tools

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

With continuing growth in the size of computer networks and applications, the potential damage that can be caused is increasing. Intrusion detection is a common cyber security mechanism used to detect malicious activities in host and/or network environments. Read more

Supervisors: Dr ML Lemoudden, Assoc Prof RM McFarlane

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

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Behavioural Analysis for Ransomware and Extortion-based Attack Detection

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Edinburgh Napier University’s Cyber Security and Forensics Research Group 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

Supervisor: Assoc Prof RM McFarlane

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

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Hardening the Computing Continuum against Adversarial Attacks

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

ML technologies rapidly expand as they perform predictions or support decisionmaking in healthcare, intrusion detection, fraud detection, autonomous vehicles, and many other applications. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Pitropakis, Prof B Buchanan

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

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Leveraging Deepfake AI for Generating Realistic Avatars and Conversational Data for Hearing-Aid Development and Evaluation

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

Recently, there has been growing interest in the use of deepfake AI to improve healthcare. This exciting project aims to leverage deepfake AI technology to enhance the development and evaluation of future hearing-aid speech processing algorithms. Read more

Supervisors: Prof AH Hussain, Dr KD Dashtipour, Prof BC Canberk, Mr MG Gogate, Dr A Goman

15 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD Studentship in Secure and Private Software Engineering

University of Edinburgh School of Informatics

One fully funded PhD position to work with Dr Adriana Sejfia in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, on a project titled “Secure and Private Software Engineering”. Read more

Supervisor: Dr AS Sejfia

1 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD studentship in Machine Learning Theory & Economics

University of Edinburgh School of Informatics

One fully funded, full-time PhD position to work with Dr Fengxiang He at the Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute (AIAI), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh on a project titled “Machine Learning Theory & Economics”. Read more

Supervisor: Dr F He

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

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Security of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The rise of Electric Vehicles (EVs) drives an increase in demand and rapid development of the charging infrastructure, where a charger interconnects with an EV and a charging provider as well as a site controller to authorise charging sessions and report any errors. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Prof A Al-Dubai

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

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Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

The great leap forward in wireless communications technology drives the recent advancements of Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs). Read more

Supervisor: Dr Z Tan

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

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Machine unlearning for large language models

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

ChatGPT has popularized Large Language Models (LLMs), which are now at the forefront of today's AI boom. The LLMs are remarkable tools that can understand, generate, and interact with human language in a natural way. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Dr YY Yu

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

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Introspection of Virtual Machines using AI

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

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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Forensic storage carving using AI

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

In computer forensics, investigators need to be able to analyse storage devices. Storage devices tend to store information in blocks, and the arrangement of blocks in a certain order is the thing which represents a data object. 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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zk-Cloud Forensics: Privacy-Aware and Tamper-proof Cloud Forensics using a Public Key Trust Infrastructure

Edinburgh Napier University School of Computing, Engineering & the Built Environment

In order to detect contraband content within a cloud-based system, it is possible to sample fragments of data [1] and match them against hashed values. Read more

Supervisors: Prof B Buchanan, Dr J Ahmad

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

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We have 31 Cyber Security PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students in Edinburgh

Cyber Security PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students in Edinburgh

We have 31 Cyber Security PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships for Self-funded Students in Edinburgh

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