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.

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Disruptive Digital Experiences
Digital experiences deliberately go beyond simply communicating information - they seek to strongly engage, involve, and emotionally affect the user using digital means. A huge array of interactions a...

Harry Agius
Damon Daylamani-Zad

15/09/2024

Self Funded

Brain wave analysis and modelling with graph signal processing
Brain wave analysis and modelling is an increasingly important research area, not least because of its applications in bio-medicine, rehabilitation, and next-generation human-computer interfaces. This...

Nikolaos Boulgouris

30/05/2023

Self Funded

Digital Stone: Robotic Construction of a Masonry Arch Bridge
Stone bridges and buildings were widely built up until the 1920s. They last for hundreds - and in many cases thousands of years, for example those built by the Romans. With 80% lower carbon emission c...

Michael Rustell
Adrienn Tomor
Tatiana Kalganova

31/12/2023

Self Funded

Using deep learning for weed detection
Although the deep learning area has made a major breakthrough in the latest developments, there are still numerous challenges that have to be resolved when working with real-world data. In this partic...

Tatiana Kalganova

30/04/2023

Self Funded

User experience in Extended Reality environments and applications
Extended Reality (XR), which covers Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), is already in the rise with applications from manufacturing to health to gaming, to name but ju...

Fotios Spyridonis
Damon Daylamani-Zad

01/04/2024

Self Funded

Exploring the potential of serious games to enhance user engagement with real-world applications
Serious games, which are defined as digital games that do not have entertainment as their main focus, have been shown to be an effective platform for improving training, education or modifying objecti...

Fotios Spyridonis
Damon Daylamani-Zad

31/12/2023

Self Funded

Development of personalised services and applications for healthcare
The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a reality and is increasingly getting more integrated in our everyday lives. Its interplay with Mobile Computing is a key ingredient in this. Smartphones are e...

Fotios Spyridonis
George Ghinea
Zidong Wang
Xiaohui Liu

31/12/2023

Self Funded

Building Information Model Development Using Generative Adversarial Networks
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN’s), are an approach to generative modelling using deep learning methods, such as convolutional neural networks. Generative modelling is an unsupervised learning ta...

Michael Rustell
Tatiana Kalganova

01/05/2024

Self Funded

Energy and CO2 Awareness during Software Design and Development
An ever-critical topic is the emergence of Green Software Engineering and how software engineering influences the environment. This project aims to advance the state of the art by defining an approach...

Nour Ali

01/05/2024

Self Funded

A Machine Learning Approach for Migrating to Microservices
This project aims to advance the state of the art by defining an approach that uses machine learning techniques to automate the migration of monolithic software into microservice architecture. The pur...

Nour Ali

07/05/2024

Self Funded

Fully-funded studentships

Virtual & Augmented Reality Experiences in Digital Arts and Creative Industries

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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