Research Degrees
PhD research student applications are welcomed by the HCI 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 HCI with your ideas.
Some candidate PhD topics that group members are interested in supervising in the future may include, but are not limited to:
- Digital Financial Services
- Mobile Money/ Currencies
- Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Interactions
- Video Production
- Family and Domestic Technologies
- In-vehicle Interactions
See below a list of available PhD projects in Computer Science that includes projects in our area:
Description
Supervisor
Application Deadline
Funding
Automating CFD using knowledge-based systems
Typical steady CFD is performed using the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes equations, however accuracy of the flowfield is strongly dependent on the turbulence model used and can be case dependent. Lar...
All year round
Self Funded
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All year round
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Self Funded
Stimuli and shape recovery forces for 4D printing
4D Printing is a growing field within Additive Manufacturing, where components are able to have controlled and programmed shape-deformation over time when exposed to stimuli.
The aim of this PhD is to...
All year round
Self Funded
Self Funded
All year round
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All year round
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All year round
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Benchmarking Machine Learning Algorithms
Machine learning algorithms are employed in a myriad of applications in almost any domain, be it industrial, commercial, scientific or academic. Many techniques have been developed to tackle such a di...
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Self Funded
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All year round
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All year round
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Design human-like machine learning
A study of the publications available via PubMed alone (a database of 26 million references to biomedical publications), shows that only four machine learning models (linear regression, Bayesian reaso...
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Self Funded
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All year round
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Self Funded
Artificial Intelligence and Additive Manufacturing
The next generation of Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies will utilise the aspect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enable better design and manufacturability of parts. The aim of this PhD is t...
All year round
Self Funded
Self Funded
All year round
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Self Funded
Design of Experiments for Network Science
Design of Experiments (DOE) is a research area within statistics that allows scientists to maximise the amount of information derived from an experiment. Developed (significantly by RA Fisher) initial...
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Self Funded
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All year round
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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...
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Self Funded
Self Funded
All year round
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All year round
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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...
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Self Funded
Self Funded
Geometric deep learning
Deep learning has had tremendous success in a variety of applications. Nevertheless, many data don’t follow a euclidean underlying structure: for example social networks, sensor networks, types of bra...
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Self Funded
Self Funded
Multi-fidelity Modelling of Electronics Cooling
Electronics cooling is critical to the reliable performance of a vast array of todays technologies including datacentres, electric vehicles, avionics, telecommunictions to name only a few. Pertinent t...
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Self Funded
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...
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Self Funded
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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...
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Self Funded
Self Funded
Autonomous 5G Networks
5G Networks are expected to support many use cases ranging from autonomous vehicles, e-health, industry 4.0, entertainment, transport, smart cities etc. which will place a wide range of technical requ...
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Self Funded
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Neuromorphic-computing models and its applications
Neuromorphic-computing models are the ones that can simulate human brains architecture and connections. It is composed of large numbers of neurons and nonlinear connections. The developed deep neural ...
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Self Funded
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All year round
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All year round
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