PhD student projects

PhD students are a very welcome addition to our research community and we are happy to engage them in excellent research alongside our academic staff members. Below you will find a list of some of the currently available research activities for PhD students. 

Please contact the supervisors listed below to discuss each project in more detail and for help with developing a suitable research statement for the project.

Description
Supervisor
Funding
AI-Driven Multimodal Biomedical Data Fusion
Technological advances in biomedicine now enable the collection of high-dimensional, heterogeneous data across multiple platforms, including imaging, genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics and clinic...
Yongmin Li
Doreen Lau
Self Funded
Developing Machine Learning (ML) Models for Contextually Appropriate Alt Text Generation and Evaluation
Alternative text (alt text) plays a vital role in web accessibility, providing descriptions of images for screen reader users, especially those who are blind or visually impaired. However, current mac...
Fotios Spyridonis
Damon Daylamani-Zad
Self Funded
PhD project in human augmentation through artificial intelligence (AI)
We are offering a self-funded PhD position with our Department of Computer Science at Brunel University London, focusing on integrating AI into human augmentation. This research project aims to explor...
Fotios Spyridonis
Yongmin Li
Self Funded
Remote VR-Enabled Interpersonal Coordination for Perceptual-Motor Rehabilitation
The successful candidate will support research in the Interdisciplinary Development of Remote Virtual Reality Enabled Interpersonal Coordination Assessment and Intervention Platform in the Health Scie...
Nadine Aburumman
Dominic Orth
Self Funded
Telecontrol with XR for Remote Human-Robot Interaction
The integration of extended reality (XR) technologies with intelligent systems offers new frontiers in remote operation and control, especially for environments that are hazardous, inaccessible, or re...
Nadine Aburumman
Tatiana Kalganova
Self Funded
AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabled autonomous robots for non-disruptive inspection of utility and sewage systems
Traditional manual maintenance of pipelines which requires digging of ground to get access to pipelines is ineffective because of safety issues, high cost and limited human vision. Thus, serious fault...
Md Nazmul Huda
Self Funded
PhD in transforming education with generative AI technologies
We are offering a self-funded PhD position with our Brunel Business School, focusing on the transformative potential of generative AI technologies in education. This research project aims to explore h...
Arthur Money
Self Funded
Advanced Deep Learning for Medical Imaging
Medical imaging seeks to reveal the structures and activities inside the human body that are normally invisible behind other body parts such as skin and bones. With a wide range of imaging technologie...
Yongmin Li
Self Funded
PhD project in modelling internal displacement with agent-based simulations and policy scenarios
We are offering a self-funded PhD position with our Department of Computer Science at Brunel University of London, focusing on modelling internal displacement using agent-based simulations and policy ...
Derek Groen
Self Funded
PhD project in scalable cloud-based simulations for urban planning in megacities
We are offering a self-funded PhD position with our Department of Computer Science at Brunel University of London, focusing on scalable cloud-based simulations for urban planning in megacities. Applic...
Derek Groen
Self Funded

 

Fully-funded studentships

Our funded studentships become available at different times of the year. Please keep checking our page regularly to see the latest funded opportunities. We also advertise all our funded studentships as soon as they become available on the @BrunelResearch twitter account.

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