University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Dr N Brown

Application Deadline: 30 June 2020

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 has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Reconfigurable architecture enable programmers to configure a chip to operate, electronically, just like a software application.

Data Access and Movement Modelling for HPC

Dr OT Brown, Dr D Holmes

Application Deadline: 30 June 2020

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 has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

The future of high-performance computing is heterogeneous, and with that heterogeneity comes increasingly complex decisions about where data should be located for optimal performance.

Open Source Provenance Survey (OSPREY)

Dr R Baxter, Mr D Scobbie

Application Deadline: 30 June 2020

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 has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

The OSPREY project will establish and maintain a data set of ISO image, binary package and file checksum, quality and identity metrics to track and verify the provenance of Open Source Software (OSS).

Optimising HPC applications for the Arm ecosystem

Dr M Weiland, Dr O Perks

Application Deadline: 30 June 2020

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 has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

In the past couple of years, Arm processors have been shown to be a viable alternative to Intel or AMD CPUs for HPC systems. 2018 and 2019 saw the installation of a number of Arm-based supercomputer in the US and Europe.

PhD studentship in Enabling Ethical Human-AI Reasoning in International Law

Prof M Rovatsos

Application Deadline: 15 June 2020

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 has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

One fully funded PhD position on a PhD project titled “Enabling Ethical Human-AI Reasoning in International Law”.

UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence

UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training

Funding Type

PhD Type

UKRI Centres for Doctoral Training conduct research and training in priority topics related to Artificial Intelligence. They are funded by the UK Government through UK Research and Innovation. Students may receive additional training and development opportunities as part of their programme.

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.

Building on a tradition of world-leading research and innovation at the University of Edinburgh, our Centre will train a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists who will shape the development of AI within biomedical research over the next decades.