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PhD topics for research students

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

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Funding
Optimising end to end delay in 5G and Beyond networks
End to end delay is an important aspect in communication networks considering diverse applications ranging from healthcare to gaming. End to end delay is due to propagation, transmission, queuing and ...
Self Funded
Pattern Reconfigurable Antennas for future wireless communication systems
Wireless communication systems expanding at a very high rate with high capacity requirements. Social media applications and life style choices have resulted in very high data rates. Frequency re-use t...
Self Funded
Design and implementation of Explainable Trustworthy Artificial Intelligent System
Currently, the output of AI does not indicate the route or process the model has taken to obtain that output. So, the developers that developed the model will not be able to concisely conclude nor exp...
Self Funded
Smart Homes: Intelligent Data Collection and Processing using Lynsyn
Electricity prices are constantly increasing, and household consumer demand response is a field gaining more interest. This allows the user to understand the behaviour of power consumption and therefo...
Self Funded
Large Language Modeling (LMM) for unstructured dialogues
Language models such as ChatGPT have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their ability to generate human-like text and assist with a wide range of natural language processing tasks. The...
Self Funded
Unlocking the hosting capacity of renewable energy in distribution power systems
1. Background to the Research The transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources (RES) is a global imperative in the face of climate change. As renewable energy technologies, particularly so...
Self Funded
Precision control of Nano-fuel production
Storing hydrogen nanobubbles in liquid carriers to produce hydrogen nano-fuels offers significant benefits in terms of efficiency, safety and sustainability. Hydrogen nano-fuels have great potential t...
Self Funded
Multi-omics data analysis for critical disease prediction
Personalised treatment is a new and strategic approach to separates patients into different groups based on their personal response or risk of disease so that treatments can be tailored to the individ...
Self Funded
Autonomous Drone Surveys and Convolutional Neural Networks for Bridge Maintenance: A Predictive Approach Using Finite Element Analysis
Objective: The primary objective of this research is to develop a comprehensive framework for bridge maintenance that integrates autonomous drone surveys, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and Fin...
Self Funded
Real-time Visual and Haptic Feedback of Grasping Movements in Virtual Reality
The project we propose is multidisciplinary, combining research into 3D graphics, physics, AI, and virtual reality techniques from computer science with new advances in brain mechanisms underlying per...
Self Funded