Edinburgh Napier University Computer Science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 110 Edinburgh Napier University Computer Science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

A Novel Machine Learning-Driven Edge Computing

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

The development of Edge Computing (EC) has been evolving under the umbrella of cloud computing where resources are centralized and managed in data centers. Read more

Supervisors: Prof A Al-Dubai, Dr IR Romdhani, Dr BG Ghaleb

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Machine Learning and Hyper-heuristics

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

Hyper-heuristics (HH) have been successfully used to solve combinatorial problems from different problem domains, such as vehicle routing, bin packing and constraint satisfaction problems. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Sim

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Using multi-agent systems to help households reduce peak electricity consumption in ways they perceive as fair

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

The UK and the EU have both recently updated their legislation to put net zero emissions targets in place for 2050. This requires moving away from using fossil fuels for energy generation, and moving towards renewable sources such as photovoltaic cells and wind turbines. Read more

Supervisor: Dr S Powers

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Data Quality and Cleaning in Big Data

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

The proliferation of Big Data analytics is developing ever more sophisticated models for intelligent data-driven insight and decision making in business and in other areas such as health and social care. Read more

Supervisors: Dr T Peng, Assoc Prof A Lawson

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How Blockchain and NFT Technologies can Fight Counterfeiting and Forgery of Physical Goods and Digital Assets in the Metaverse

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

Building blocks for the so-called "Internet of Value" are provided by blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT), which allow for the recording… Read more

Supervisors: Dr Z Jaroucheh, Dr N Moradpoor

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Blockchain-based Ecosystem to Combat Fake News

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

Building blocks for the so-called "Internet of Value" are provided by blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT), which allow for the recording… Read more

Supervisor: Dr Z Jaroucheh

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Blockchain Technology and Decentralised Finance (DeFi) : The Bridge to the Future of Finance

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

Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) provide building blocks of the so-called “Internet of Value”, since they enable recording of interactions and transfer “value” referring to any record of ownership of asset - for example, money, securities, land titles – and ownership of specific information like identity, health information as well as other personal data. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Z Jaroucheh, Dr BG Ghaleb

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Query Performance Prediction for Neural Information Retrieval: Application to Conversational Search

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

In information retrieval (IR), query performance prediction (QPP) aims to predict the search effectiveness for a given query without resorting to relevance judgments. Read more

Supervisor: Dr MU Ullah

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Capture and Contextualisation of Cultural Heritage Data

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

Museum artifact digitization is typically limited to using specific equipment for capture, or to the duration of funded digitization projects and tied to particular institutions. Read more

Supervisor: Dr BK Koniaris

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Generative navigation for autonomous robots using active inference

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

Simultaneous Location And Mapping (SLAM) is a strategy that allows autonomous mobile robots to navigate their environment. Sensors on board the robot detect walls and objects and the sensor data is used to construct a representation of the physical surroundings. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BD Davison, Dr AS Steyven

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Characterising Automatically Generated Text

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

Research is needed to understand the differences between human and machine generated text. Prior research has focused on identification of identification of deceptive text, such as phishing attempts or bot-generated tweets. Read more

Supervisor: Dr PB Barclay

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Enhanced Deep Learning and Semantic-based Predictive Analytics for Reactive IoT Applications and Streaming Data

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

The emergence of Internet of Things (IoT) has formed a bridge that connects most of the real-world entities with the related computer entities. Read more

Supervisors: Dr OB Bamgboye, Prof X Liu, Dr KB Babaagba

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

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Defeating complex families of malware using evolutionary based adversarial learning.

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

Malicious attacks account for a significant portion of attacks to information assets and computer networks in organisations today. Read more

Supervisors: Dr KB Babaagba, Prof E Hart, Prof X Liu

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Adversarial Learning for Industrial Control Systems

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

Cyber-attacks are increasingly posing more and more threat to information assets and computer systems in general. This is particularly so in industrial control systems which refer to a generalized group of automation systems employed in controlling and keeping track of industrial and manufacturing facilities [1]. Read more

Supervisors: Dr KB Babaagba, Dr N Moradpoor, Dr OB Bamgboye

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Development of a Knowledge Architecture for Designing Smart Products

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

Developing smart products aims to create unique in-built characteristics such as adaptiveness, context-awareness, personalisation, and pro-activeness to enhance customer value. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Vasantha, Dr K Goh

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We have 110 Edinburgh Napier University Computer Science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Edinburgh Napier University Computer Science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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