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Dr S Mousavi No more applications being accepted Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

Coventry United Kingdom Data Science Environmental Health Epidemiology Health Informatics Computer Science Nursing & Health Software Engineering

About the Project

Coventry University (CU) is inviting applications from suitably-qualified graduates for a fully-funded PhD studentship.

A common challenge in infectious diseases is how to allocate limited resources to manage the disease or control infection. For example, it would be important to know which population group to target with immunisation first, give masks and/or other diseases prevention products. While this may not be a problem in developed countries, it has been a growing problem in developing countries in Africa as witnessed with the HIV pandemic.

In this research, new algorithms are devised and implemented for the problem of allocating limited resources, such as vaccines, to control infectious diseases in general and COVID-19 pandemic in particular. Two important properties of the new algorithms are their accuracy, compared to existing algorithms, and their independence from the disease model, i.e. the mathematical model that describes the transmission dynamics of the disease. The latter is essential for COVID-19 and future potential infectious diseases because the epidemic model will change over the time as the result of extensive ongoing research on developing more accurate models. Most existing studies are limited to basic models such as the Susceptible Infected Recovered (SIR) model which are not adequate to capture characteristics of infectious disease such as COVID-19.

Training and Development

The successful candidate will receive comprehensive research training including technical, personal and professional skills.

All researchers at Coventry University (from PhD to Professor) are part of the Doctoral College and Centre for Research Capability and Development, which provides support with high-quality training and career development activities.

Candidate specification

· A minimum of a 2:1 first degree in a relevant discipline/subject area with a minimum 60% mark in the project element or equivalent with a minimum 60% overall module average.

PLUS

· the potential to engage in innovative research and to complete the PhD within a 3.5 years

· a minimum of English language proficiency (IELTS overall minimum score of 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 in each component)

The candidate should have his first degree in computer science or a very close discipline and be excellent at programming and algorithm design.

Background in epidemic modelling and/or public health would be advantageous.

For further details see: https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-students/making-an-application/

How to apply

To find out more about the project please contact Seyed Mousavi, Dr Lecturer in Computer Science

To apply online please visit:

https://pgrplus.coventry.ac.uk/studentships/eec-effective-algorithms-for-infectious-diseases-resource-allocation-applied-to-covid-19-pandemic

All applications require full supporting documentation, a covering letter, plus an up to 2000-word supporting statement showing how the applicant’s expertise and interests are relevant to the project.