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Improving Electric Vehicles’ Safety and Security through Cyber Situational Awareness [Self-Funded Students Only]

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics

Context. To reduce greenhouses gases from the largest emitting sector, electric vehicles (EVs) present great opportunities for country like UK. Read more

Supervisors: Dr N Saxena, Dr QZ Zhang, Prof O F Rana

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

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Wider benefits of the National Pollinator Strategy

Anglia Ruskin University ARU School of Life Sciences

Research Group: Applied Ecology Research Group (AERG)

Research Group. Applied Ecology Research Group (AERG). Proposed supervisory team. Dr Alvin Helden. Dr Tom Ings. Several other members of Biology staff with interest in this subject area could be part of the team e.g., Dr Peter Brown and Dr Sarah Hart. Read more

Supervisors: Dr A Helden, Dr T Ings

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

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Social relationships and the evolution of complex cognition

Anglia Ruskin University ARU School of Life Sciences

Research Group: Behavioural Ecology Research Group (BEEC)

Research Group. Behavioural Ecology Research Group (BEEC). Proposed supervisory team. Dr Claudia Wascher. Theme. Cognitive abilities, Social relationships. Read more

Supervisor: Dr C Wascher

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

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Impact of Ischaemic Pre-Conditioning on Oxygen Uptake Kinetics: Implications for training and recovery

Anglia Ruskin University ARU School of Psychology and Sport Science

Research Group: Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences

Research Group. Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences. Proposed supervisory team. Dr Dan Gordon. Dr Marie Gernigon (External - University of Paris-Saclay). Read more

Supervisor: Dr D Gordon

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

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AI for sustainability in food supply chain and pricing

Anglia Ruskin University ARU School of Computing and Information Science

Research Group: Computing, Informatics and Applications Research Group

Research Group. Computing, Informatics and Applications Research Group. Proposed supervisory team. Dr Lakshmi Babu Saheer. Dr Cristina Luca. Read more

Supervisors: Dr L Babu Saheer, Dr C Luca, Dr J Zarrin

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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Automatic Object and Behaviour Recognition in Video/ Image Sequences

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Smart CCTV systems have been subject on an increased interest during the last decades. There are many reasons for this interest, such as the need of processing quickly, in an automatic way huge amounts of video data. Read more

Supervisor: Prof L Mihaylova

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

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Wireless Sensor Networks for Localisation in Indoor and Outdoor Environments

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

The aim of this project is to develop scalable and efficient techniques and algorithms for localisation in different environments, based on data in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Read more

Supervisor: Prof L Mihaylova

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

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Sequential Monte Carlo Methods for Bayesian Inference in Complex Systems

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

This project will focus on the development of Bayesian inference methods such as sequential Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for filtering and smoothing of states and parameters of complex nonlinear systems. Read more

Supervisor: Prof L Mihaylova

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

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Multiple Object Tracking and Decision Making

University of Sheffield Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

This research is aimed at developing scalable Bayesian approaches able to solve complex and high dimensional problems with multiple objects and multi-sensor data. Read more

Supervisor: Prof L Mihaylova

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

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Damage characterisation and root cause analysis of wind turbine pitch bearings

University of Sheffield Department of Mechanical Engineering

Blade pitch bearings of large scale wind turbines control the individual blades in order to maximise power generation at low wind speeds and to prevent turbine damages under high winds. Read more

Supervisor: Prof H Long

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

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CFD Study of Wind Turbine Aerodynamics

University of Sheffield Department of Mechanical Engineering

Wind turbine is the main technology that converts wind energy to electricity. The interaction between air flow and the turbine blade are critical to the structure integrity and noise generation of the turbine. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M Pourkashanian, Prof L Ma, Prof D Ingham

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

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AD design and operating strategies for energy demand matching in the face of non-uniform feedstock availability and composition

University of Sheffield Department of Mechanical Engineering

In the urban environment at the household to institutional-scale the availability and composition of waste biomass feedstocks, suitable for biogas production, is likely to vary on a variety of timescales. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M Pourkashanian, Prof W Nimmo, Prof L Ma

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

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Advanced virtual reality future power plant dynamic simulations

University of Sheffield Department of Mechanical Engineering

This project aims to combine computational fluid dynamics, chemical process modelling and virtual system simulation techniques to develop a dynamic modelling tool for power plant performance simulations. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M Pourkashanian, Prof L Ma, Prof K Hughes, Prof D Ingham

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

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Design and development of water desalination plants for rural communities, driven by a hybrid solar-bioenergy system

University of Sheffield Department of Mechanical Engineering

Freshwater supplies are becoming increasingly stressed as demand increases. Desalination technologies are able to produce drinking water from abundant resources such as seawater. Read more

Supervisors: Prof M Pourkashanian, Prof K Hughes, Dr D Poggio

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

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We have 507 control engineering PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

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