PhD in Rami Bahsoon's Autonomous, Intelligent and Distributed Software Engineering Lab

About

Rami Bahsoon's Autonomous, Intelligent and Distributed Software Engineering Lab at University of Birmingham, U. of Birmingham, UK is looking for highly-motivated PhD applicants. The lab welcomes PhD applicants and PhD visitors in the general area of autonomous, intelligent and distributed software engineering. We welcome students on self-funded and governmental-funded. Limited school scholarships for PhD applicants world-wide are available to exceptional students on highly competitive-basis. We are particularly interested in supervising topics in the area of:

A. Digital Twins Software Architectures, including autonomous digital twins, cognitive digital twins, federated digital twins, etc.

B. Autonomous and Adaptive Software Engineering: Self-* software systems architectures, self-aware computing, cognitive software architectures, engineering adaptivity and emergence, Smart IoT, cloud, fog etc.

C. Large Language Models and Generative AI for Autonomous, Adaptive and Self-* Systems: covering architectures, design, and modelling, testing, coordination, control, distribution models, and/or knowledge management of innovative autonomous and adaptive solutions leveraging Large Language Models and Generative AI. Contributions include but not limited to LLM foundational models for software engineering, new computing modalities, software systems architectures for monitoring, analysis, planning, decision making, fine-tunning, feedback loops and emergence with human in/on in the loop, socio dependability, scaling and resilience, explainbility, metrics etc.

D. Sustainable Software Systems with a focus on self-*/intelligent software architectures and autonomous software systems for sustainable development.

E. Technical Debt Management in Software Engineering, including but not limited to Technical Debt in software systems leveraging machine learning models.

F. Quantum Software Engineering - focus on requirements engineering and (intelligent) software architectures of quantum software.

G. Security Software Engineering - including but not limited to: Self-* architectures for security, Blockchain, IoT, etc

Criteria:

Highly motived applicant with strong commitment to excellent research. First or Upper Second Class Honours undergraduate degree and/or postgraduate degree with Distinction related to the topic of investigation. Previous research in the area is desirable but not a must. The lab provides friendly, generous supervision and training to its PhDs with excellent track record in completion and guiding students. Alumni of the Rami Bahsoon's lab are academics, researchers, and practitioners worldwide. The School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham is ranked the third for world-leading research in the UK according to the latest REF 2021. Birmingham is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of UK intensive Universities.

Applicants are advised to contact Dr Rami Bahsoon r.bahsoon@bham.ac.uk, if you would need more information.

Lab Information and focus: https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rzb/RamiBahsoonlab

Apply here and please indicate Rami Bahsoon as prospective supervisor to ease routing:

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/computer-science/postgraduate-research/applying-for-phd-in-computer-science