Research Degrees
PhD research student applications are welcomed by the BSEL Research Group all year round. Research students are valued members of our thriving, research-intensive team. We are particularly interested in supervising students' research in any of the broad range of topics listed below. Please note that the topic list is not exhaustive, so feel free to contact a member of BSEL with your ideas.
Some candidate PhD topics that group members are interested in supervising in the future may include, but are not limited to:
- Software Architecture
- Software Fault Analyses
- Understanding of Defects in Software
- Refactoring and Bad Smells
- Effort Estimation in Software Projects
- Search Based Software Engineering
- Human Aspects of Software Engineering
- Metrics and Patterns in Software Projects
- Data Analytics for Software Engineering
See below a list of available PhD projects in Computer Science that includes projects in our area:
Description
Supervisor
Funding
Machine learning for biometric identification
Biometric identification aims to recognize people's identity through the use of signals or images from which one can extract features that are distinctive to each person. This PhD project will focus o...
Self Funded
Designing interactions with digital money
The PhD will explore how people use and interact with money to explore how digital systems can be designed for more effective and suitable purposes. This topic could cover consumer payment systems, pe...
Self Funded
Mapping Software Systems based on Domains
This project is based on inter-disciplinary research: on the one hand, it is a Computer Science project, where a good understanding of software programming is needed. On the other hand, it is a Biolog...
Self Funded
Optimisation methods for (deep) neural networks
A machine learning algorithm can be viewed as a mapping between inputs and outputs, with the scope of optimising and tuning the parameters that describe it so that the performance is improved. The los...
Self Funded