Information Science (equality) PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Dr Z Jaroucheh

Applications accepted all year round

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 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.

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.

A unified approach based on semantic models and continuous deep learning to sensor data uncertainty and inconsistency in smart systems - Project ID SOC0025

Prof X Liu, Dr Z Jaroucheh

Applications accepted all year round

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 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.

Smart IoT (Internet Of Things) based Applications, such as smart city/building/home and smart factory, are characterized as sensor-driven technology, which has the tendency of producing huge volume of data with increasing velocity.

Future applications and interfaces for virtual- and augmented-reality - Project ID SOC0007

Dr A Esteves, Dr L Muir

Applications accepted all year round

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 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.

This project will entail the exploration of novel applications areas for virtual- and augmented-reality (VR, AR).

Next Generation Forensic and Incident Response Analysis Challenges

Dr G Russell, Dr S McKeown, Prof B Buchanan, Dr P Leimich

Application Deadline: 30 November 2019

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.

This work will look at the state-of-the-art investigation challenges such as related to Tor Forensics, Memory Forensics, IoT Forensics, Triage, Image Forensics, and Cloud Forensics.

Developing Artificial Intelligence Tools for the Identification of Sleep Apnoea

University of Liverpool
Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease

Dr Y Zheng, Dr S Craig, Prof GYH Lip

Applications accepted all year round

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 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.

Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) occurs due to the repetitive closure of the pharynx during sleep, leading to sleep fragmentation and, often, daytime somnolence.

Fully-Funded PhD Positions in Biology, Computer Science, Data Science & Scientific Computing, Mathematics, Neuroscience and Physics

IST Austria
Graduate School

Funding Type

PhD Type

International PhD Programme

International PhD programs are often designed for international students. Your PhD will usually be delivered in English, though some opportunities to gain and use additional language skills might also be available. Students may propose their own PhD topics or apply for advertised projects.

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide)

Some or all of the PhD opportunities in this programme have funding attached. Applications for this programme are welcome from suitably qualified candidates worldwide. Funding may only be available to a limited set of nationalities and you should read the full programme details for further information.

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) is looking for highly qualified candidates with bachelor's or master's degrees to apply for the IST Austria PhD program.

Automated human detection in crowded scenes using fused machine learning systems (Application Ref: SF19/EE/CIS/KHELIFI)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Dr F Khelifi, Dr A Belatreche

Applications accepted all year round

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 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.

Automated human detection in dense crowds has recently emerged as one of the key AI elements to address many problems in computer vision such as scene analysis, suspicious behaviour/fight detection and human tracking.

BioVision: bio-inspired computer vision using deep architectures (Advert Reference: SF19/EE/CIS/BELATRECHE)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Dr A Belatreche, Dr F Khelifi

Applications accepted all year round

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 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 primate visual system outperforms the existing automated vision systems in almost all measures.

Complex network analysis and resilience in large-scale multi-layer networks (Application Ref: SF19/EE/CIS/SHANG)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Dr Y Shang, Prof A Bouridane

Applications accepted all year round

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 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 goal of this project is to investigate and develop new data science approaches to model large-scale networks.

Computer Vision with Deep Learning and Multi-Drones (Application Ref: SF19/EE/CIS/SHUM)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Engineering and Environment

Dr H Shum

Applications accepted all year round

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 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.

We are seeking a motivated person interested in a doctoral study with a fully-funded PhD studentship. With the training provided, the PhD will research, implement solutions, and produce research papers in the exciting areas of computer vision with deep learning and multiple drones.