PhD topics for research students

Find below a list of currently available self-funded PhD topics.

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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

Machine learning for decision making: how to choose the optimal strategy for stratified medicine life cycle
Stratified medicine is at the cutting edge of a new era in healthcare, which targets to a specific patient population on the basis of a companion diagnostic (such as a biomarker) to predict treatment ...

Yang Yang

31/12/2023

Self Funded

Digital twin in continuous UF/DF step of bioprocess
Continuous technology represents the future tendency of biopharmaceutical processing. Compared to the batch process, the continuous process has benefits of reduced cost, increased productivity, improv...

Yang Yang

31/12/2023

Self Funded

Deep learning methods in multi-omics data analysis for critical disease
Personalised treatment is a new and strategic approach to separating patients into different groups based on their personal response or risk of disease so that treatments can be tailored to the indivi...

Yang Yang

31/12/2023

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

Distributed energy resources optimisation
An urban or domestic district energy system typically consists of micro wind turbines (WT), PV panels, heat pumps (HP) and vehicle to grid (V2G) system for the residents. This project aims to study th...

Maysam Abbod

31/12/2023

Self Funded

Medical image segmentation and classification
Medical image segmentation helps clinicians focus on a particular area of the disease and extract detailed information for a more accurate diagnosis. The key challenges associated with medical image s...

Maysam Abbod

31/12/2023

Self Funded

AI system for Vehicle to Grid power management
Artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches have been utilised for managing power systems, however, the introduction of the electric vehicle made power management more difficult due to the...

Maysam Abbod

31/03/2023

Self Funded

Circular economy in electricity networks with high penetration of renewable energy and flexibility provisions from end-of-life EV storage
Net zero targets can be achieved through intertwined solutions from fields such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, high value recycling and transportation. With first generation electric vehicles...

Ioana Pisica

30/04/2023

Self Funded

Fast implementation of Deep Neural Networks for IoT devices
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have found great success in many computer vision-related tasks. However, most of the existing DNNs require high computation and storage cost. In this project, the student w...

Lu Gan

31/12/2023

Self Funded