Other (english) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

We have 124 Other (english) PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships

Numerical modelling of multiphase flow and reactive transport in porous materials

Heriot-Watt University School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society

Understanding reactive transport in porous materials is of utmost importance for a wide range of engineering applications, including subsurface energy storage, low-carbon building materials and fuel cells. Read more

Supervisor: Dr J Maes

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

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Accelerating molecular phylogenetic inference using high performance computing.

University of Reading Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Project Overview. Molecular phylogenetic inference, constructing evolutionary histories from molecular data, is an activity universal to all biological disciplines. Read more

Supervisor: Dr A Meade

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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Safeguarding the Internet of Things: A Machine Learning Driven Security Paradigm

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

The integration of Machine Learning (ML) techniques within the domain of Internet of Things (IoT) security has emerged as a critical research area due to the escalating risks posed by sophisticated cyber threats. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BG Ghaleb, Prof A Al-Dubai, Dr IW Wadhaj

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

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Fast and Secure Multi-party Computation Techniques

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

Multi-party computation (MPC) protocols enable multiple parties — each holding their own private data — to evaluate a computation without ever revealing any of the secret data held by each party. Read more

Supervisors: Dr BG Ghaleb, Prof B Buchanan

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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