Engineering (speech) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Neural and behavioural correlates of speech production in Parkinson's disease

University of Reading School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences

Speech is a complex task requiring highly coordinated movements of a large group of respiratory, laryngeal and articulatory muscles and involves precise integration with auditory and somatosensory feedback to plan and execute speech movements. Read more

Supervisor: Dr F Mollaei

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

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Cutting-edge microphone arrays for improving smart device performance in adverse environments

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

PhD Supervisor. Jiahong Zhao. Project description. This project aims to explore the design of an alternative class of microphone arrays, so-called co-prime microphone arrays, for recording and processing speech in adverse environments. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Zhao

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD in Media Provenance and Authenticity

University of Surrey School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

We are looking to recruit an excellent PhD student in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) focused on the problem of ensuring media provenance and authenticity in the age of Generative AI. . Read more

Supervisor: Prof J Collomosse

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

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Sustainable Foundation Models for Time Series Processing Applied to Sustainability

University of Surrey The Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence

Foundation models are a special class of large AI models that are trained with huge amounts of data to learn general underlying patterns to be further specialised to downstream tasks via transfer learning. Read more

Supervisors: Dr EGSN Giovani Sperandio Nascimento , Prof P Kumar

30 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Help hearing impaired listeners to understand speech better by audio-visual integration in wearable devices

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Stefan Bleeck, David Simpson. Project description. Wearable assistive hearing devices have improved our daily lives over the past two decades. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S. Bleeck

22 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

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Audio/acoustics Machine Learning

University of Surrey Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

One fully-funded PhD studentship including fees and stipend is available for an outstanding candidate to join the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), part of the University of Surrey’s Institute for People-centred Artificial Intelligence (PAI), in partnership with Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. Read more

Supervisor: Prof P Jackson

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

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Listen hard: monitoring effort in listening through physiological signals

University of Southampton Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Supervisory Team. Profs. David Simpson, Stefan Bleeck. Project description. Hearing speech is usually easy, but understanding speech in noise or in poor acoustic environments can be very challenging. Read more

Supervisor: Prof D. Simpson

31 August 2024 PhD Research Project Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Trustworthy AI for Socially Compliant Autonomous Driving

University of Surrey School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Concerns about Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) navigating complex driving scenarios necessitate balancing safety, legality, ethics, and comfort, akin to human drivers. Read more

Supervisors: Dr S Fallah, Prof RA Abbott , Dr A Tamaddoni-Nezhad, Dr AL Leveringhaus

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

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Multiple PhD project topics available around Trustworthy AI-enabled multimodal assistive hearing and conversational technologies

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

Flexible PhD project topics are available as part of the prestigious UK EPSRC funded Programme Grant. COG-MHEAR, led by Programme Director, Professor Amir Hussain. Read more

Supervisors: Prof AH Hussain, Mr MG Gogate

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

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PhD research project on the neurophysiological bases of sensorimotor communication

University of Ferrara Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication (CTNSC)

Project description. At the Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication (CTNSC), at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), we focus our efforts in two integrated directions. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A D'Ausilio, Prof luciano Fadiga

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

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PhD research project on the neurophysiology of socio-motor interaction

University of Ferrara Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication (CTNSC)

Project description. At the Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication (CTNSC), at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), we focus our efforts in two integrated directions. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A D'Ausilio, Prof luciano Fadiga

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

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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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Human emotion analysis and recognition for improving trusted human-robot interaction. Main project focus: AI and Robotics

University of Salford School of Science, Engineering and Environment

Information on this PhD research area can be found further down this page under the details about the Widening Participation Scholarship given immediately below. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M He, Prof T Cox, Dr S Ameen, Prof W Yao

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

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Intelligent and Efficient Testing and Verification of Deep Neural Networks

University of York Department of Computer Science

About the Project. Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated human-level capabilities in several challenging machine learning tasks including image classification, natural language processing and speech recognition. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Gerasimou

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

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We have 14 Engineering (speech) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Engineering (speech) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 14 Engineering (speech) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Neural and behavioural correlates of speech production in Parkinson's disease

Cutting-edge microphone arrays for improving smart device performance in adverse environments

PhD in Media Provenance and Authenticity

Sustainable Foundation Models for Time Series Processing Applied to Sustainability

Help hearing impaired listeners to understand speech better by audio-visual integration in wearable devices

Audio/acoustics Machine Learning

Listen hard: monitoring effort in listening through physiological signals

Trustworthy AI for Socially Compliant Autonomous Driving

Multiple PhD project topics available around Trustworthy AI-enabled multimodal assistive hearing and conversational technologies

PhD research project on the neurophysiological bases of sensorimotor communication

PhD research project on the neurophysiology of socio-motor interaction

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

Human emotion analysis and recognition for improving trusted human-robot interaction. Main project focus: AI and Robotics

Intelligent and Efficient Testing and Verification of Deep Neural Networks

We have 14 Engineering (speech) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Engineering (speech) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 14 Engineering (speech) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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