Computer Science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Edinburgh

We have 150 Computer Science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Edinburgh

UKRI CDT in AI for Biomedical Innovation

We will train 60+ doctoral researchers over the next 8 years (2024-2032), who will design, develop, and implement AI approaches in partnership with our external stakeholders. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (Students Worldwide) UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training

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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)

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Visualisation of Computation

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

In the early to mid-20th century, several separate research teams made advances on computability, producing different ways of thinking about the fundamentals of computation. Read more

Supervisor: Dr P Chapman

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

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Designing Meaningful Mixed Reality Experiences

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

The aim of this research project is to investigate the design of Mixed Reality Experiences, with the long-term objective of investigating how they can be designed, developed and deployed in engaging, impactful, and ultimately more meaningful ways, in any given application context. Read more

Supervisor: Dr DD Darzentas

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

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Using Generative AI to Draw Diagrams

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

Designing algorithms for human-readable, effective diagrams is difficult. The algorithm must be able to handle a broad range of datasets, some of which will not readily lend themselves to visualisation. Read more

Supervisors: Dr P Chapman, Dr K Sim

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

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EPSRC CDT in Machine Learning Systems

University of Edinburgh School of Informatics

Machine Learning has a dramatic impact on our daily lives built on the back of improved computer systems. Systems research and ML research are symbiotic. Read more

Funded PhD Programme (European/UK Students Only) EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training

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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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Privacy-preserving Systems around Security, Trust and Identity

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

Blockpass and the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University have set up an advanced Blockchain Identity Lab (BIL), which aims to support world-leading research related to cryptography, blockchain, distributed ledger technologies, privacy-preserving machine learning, and their linkage to sovereign identities such as decentralised identities and verifiable credentials. Read more

Supervisors: Mr SP Papadopoulos, Dr N Pitropakis

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

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Hardening the Computing Continuum against Adversarial Attacks

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

ML technologies rapidly expand as they perform predictions or support decisionmaking in healthcare, intrusion detection, fraud detection, autonomous vehicles, and many other applications. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Pitropakis, Prof B Buchanan

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

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A multi-spectral single photon sensor for enhanced 3D vision

University of Edinburgh School of Engineering

Autonomous systems such as self-driving cars are increasingly relying on LIDAR systems for robust environmental perception, with single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) sensors, which detect and time individual photons of light, being one of the key underlying technologies. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Gyongy

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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Adaptive sensor fusion for optimised 3D sensing

University of Edinburgh School of Engineering

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD) enable the detection and timing of individual photons of light and have become a key technology in applications such as automotive LIDAR and biomedical imaging. Read more

Supervisor: Dr I Gyongy

30 June 2024 PhD Research Project Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

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PhD studentship in Incremental Evaluation of Property Graph Queries

University of Edinburgh School of Informatics

One fully funded PhD position to work with Dr Milos Nikolic in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, on a project titled “Incremental Evaluation of Property Graph Queries”. Read more

Supervisor: Dr M Milos Nikolic

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

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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

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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

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Multimodal Multilingual Sentiment Analysis

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

Multimodal multilingual sentiment analysis involves analysing sentiments expressed in different modalities (such as text, images, audio) and across different languages. Read more

Supervisors: Dr KD Dashtipour, Mr MG Gogate

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

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We have 150 Computer Science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Edinburgh

Computer Science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Edinburgh

We have 150 Computer Science PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships in Edinburgh

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