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Edinburgh Napier University Computer Science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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

Exploring Artificial Intelligence to Develop the Analysis of Acoustic and Archival Telemetry Data: Unveiling Insights into Shark Movement

Edinburgh Napier University School of Applied Sciences

. *Please note that the closing date for this project has been brought forward* . The novel integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in analysing telemetry data represents a paradigm shift, offering unprecedented insights into fish behaviour and responses to environmental changes. Read more

Supervisors: Dr J Thorburn, Prof K Diele, Prof T Horváth

29 April 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

An AI-driven approach to proactive Internet Of Things (IoT) based systems

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

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the ever-growing network of physical objects such as smart devices, vehicles, buildings and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to interact autonomously and intelligently. Read more

Supervisor: Prof X Liu

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

Developing Smart Housing for Released Prisoners leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Internet-of-Things

Edinburgh Napier University School of Applied Sciences

This interdisciplinary project focuses on the use of Smart Homes to house people recently released from prison, given the social and economic cost of returning to custody after release. Read more

Supervisor: Dr K Morrison

31 May 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

Behavioural Analysis for Ransomware and Extortion-based Attack Detection

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

Edinburgh Napier University’s Cyber Security and Forensics Research Group focuses on applied research in areas of threat analysis and detection, digital forensic triage, trust, identity and cryptography, and has had successful real world impact with several spin-out companies. Read more

Supervisor: Assoc Prof RM McFarlane

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

Communication Efficiency for Federated Learning in Critical Infrastructure

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

Federated learning is a machine learning approach that enables multiple parties to collaborate in developing a shared model while safeguarding the distribution and privacy of their data. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Moradpoor

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

Addressing Scalability Issues in Federated Learning for Critical Infrastructure

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

Federated learning is a machine learning approach that enables multiple parties to collaborate in developing a shared model while safeguarding the distribution and privacy of their data. Read more

Supervisor: Dr N Moradpoor

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

Smart Multi-Sensor Instrument for Personalized Assessment of Gait and Stability in Elderly and Frail Individuals

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

This research project aims to design, develop, and evaluate a smart multi-sensor instrument capable of personalized gait and stability assessments. Read more

Supervisor: Prof H Yu

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

Intelligent and Privacy-preserving security solutions for IoT networks

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

Over the past decade, several cyber security attacks have made the headlines targeting several sectors and causing irreversible damage on both the financial and social fronts. Read more

Supervisors: Dr IW Wadhaj, Dr BG Ghaleb

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

Intelligent & Privacy-preserving security solutions for Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs)

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

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) have gained increasing popularity and significance within the broader context of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Read more

Supervisors: Dr IW Wadhaj, Dr CTT Thomson

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

Security of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

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

The rise of Electric Vehicles (EVs) drives an increase in demand and rapid development of the charging infrastructure, where a charger interconnects with an EV and a charging provider as well as a site controller to authorise charging sessions and report any errors. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Prof A Al-Dubai

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

Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

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

The great leap forward in wireless communications technology drives the recent advancements of Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs). Read more

Supervisor: Dr Z Tan

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

Machine unlearning for large language models

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

ChatGPT has popularized Large Language Models (LLMs), which are now at the forefront of today's AI boom. The LLMs are remarkable tools that can understand, generate, and interact with human language in a natural way. Read more

Supervisors: Dr Z Tan, Dr YY Yu

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

Introspection of Virtual Machines using AI

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

There has been a huge growth in the use of virtualised technologies for computing. This includes fully virtualised servers in the cloud, as well as more lightweight solutions such as containers and docker. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Russell, Assoc Prof RM McFarlane

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

Forensic storage carving using AI

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

In computer forensics, investigators need to be able to analyse storage devices. Storage devices tend to store information in blocks, and the arrangement of blocks in a certain order is the thing which represents a data object. Read more

Supervisors: Dr G Russell, Assoc Prof RM McFarlane

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

zk-Cloud Forensics: Privacy-Aware and Tamper-proof Cloud Forensics using a Public Key Trust Infrastructure

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

In order to detect contraband content within a cloud-based system, it is possible to sample fragments of data [1] and match them against hashed values. Read more

Supervisors: Prof B Buchanan, Dr J Ahmad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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