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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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

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 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

PhD opportunity in real-time environmental monitoring and response using machine learning-enhanced simulations
We are offering a self-funded PhD position with our Department of Computer Science at Brunel University of London, focusing on real-time environmental monitoring and response using machine learning-en...

Derek Groen

Self Funded

PhD opportunity in AI-powered social virtual humans for children’s immersive experiences
We are offering a self-funded PhD position with our Institute of Digital Futures, focusing on developing AI-powered social virtual humans to enhance immersive experiences for children. Applications ar...

Nadine Aburumman

Self Funded

PhD project in force-based haptics for enhanced metaverse navigation for the vision-impaired
We are offering a self-funded PhD position with our Institute of Digital Futures, focusing on developing force-based haptic feedback systems to improve metaverse navigation for vision-impaired users. ...

Nadine Aburumman

Self Funded

Responsible artificial intelligence for small and medium enterprises in the Global South
We are offering a self-funded PhD position in responsible AI development with the Department of Computer Science. The project focuses on responsible artificial intelligence for small and medium enterp...

Steven Sam

Self Funded

Generative AI for Digital Marketing
In the domain of digital marketing, the integration of Generative AI presents an opportunity to enhance customer engagement, personalise marketing strategies, and optimise decision-making processes. B...

Yongmin Li

Self Funded

NLP for Business Intelligence
Business operations involve a large amount of data from their internal communications, presentations, reports, accounting and marketing, and external information from governments, industry sectors, cu...

Yongmin Li

Self Funded

AI system for historical handwritten text recognition (HTR)
Libraries around the world digitise the historical handwritten documents to preserve historical past and educate the people about the cultural heritage. However, a reliable optical character recogniti...

Md Nazmul Huda

Self Funded

Fully-funded studentships

Modelling the PhAse BehaviouR of Impure CO₂ Streams for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Applications (MARCO2S)

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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