Research degrees

PhD research student applications are welcomed by the IDA Research Group.  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 above. Please note that the topic list is not exhaustive, so feel free to contact a member of IDA with your ideas. 

Some candidate PhD topics that group members are interested in supervising in the future may include, but are not limited to:

  • Data Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Medical Informatics
  • Environmental Informatics
  • Heuristic Search
  • Evolutionary Computation

See below a list of available PhD projects in Computer Science that includes projects in our area:

Description
Supervisor
Funding
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
Applications for education and/or healthcare: Exploring the potential of ‘human-like’ computing
We invite applications from candidates that have an interest in the area of artificially intelligent human-like computing and exploring the potential of designing, developing, and evaluating prototype...
Arthur Money
Self Funded
Artificially intelligent conversational agents: exploring their value in education and/or healthcare
Artificially intelligent conversational agents (such as ChatGPT) are becoming increasingly common in our everyday lives. The benefits of using these technologies are becoming clear in a range of comme...
Arthur Money
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
Development of a miniature capsule robot for capsule endoscopy
A capsule robot has potential applications in medical diagnosis (e.g. capsule endoscopy) and treatments. In 2000, Given Imaging introduced the capsule endoscope which has many advantages over the trad...
Md Nazmul Huda
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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