Research projects
Find a postgraduate research project in your area of interest by exploring the research projects that we offer in the Department of Computer Science.
We have a broad range of research projects for which we are seeking doctoral students. Browse the list of projects on this page or follow the links below to find information on doctoral training opportunities, or applying for a postgraduate research programme.
Alternatively, if you would like to propose your own project then please include a research project proposal and the name of a possible supervisor with your application.
Available projects
Future computing systems projects
- A Multi-Tenancy FPGA Cloud Infrastructure and Runtime System
- A New Generation of Terahertz Emitters: Exploiting Electron Spin
- Arousal and Scanpath Trend Analysis (a-STA)
- Balancing security and privacy with data usefulness and efficiency in wireless sensor networks
- Blockchain-based Local Energy Markets
- Cloud Computing Security
- Design and Exploration of a Memristor-enabled FPGA Architecture
- Design and Implementation of an FPGA-Accelerated Data Analytics Database
- Designing Safe & Explainable Neural Models in NLP
- Dynamic Resource Management for Intelligent Transportation System Applications
- Evaluating Systems for the Augmentation of Human Cognition
- Exploring Unikernel Operating Systems Running on reconfigurable Softcore Processors
- Finding a way through the Fog from the Edge to the Cloud
- Guaranteeing Reliability for IoT Edge Computing Systems
- Hardware Aware Training for AI Systems
- Hybrid Fuzzing Concurrent Software using Model Checking and Machine Learning
- Job and Task Scheduling and Resource Allocation on Parallel/Distributed systems including Cloud, Edge, Fog Computing
- Managing the data deluge for Big Data, Internet-of-Things and/or Industry 4.0 environments
- Pervasive Technology for Multimodal Human Memory Augmentation
- Power Management Methodologies for IoT Edge Devices
- Power Transfer Methods for Inductively Coupled 3-D ICs
- Problems in large graphs representing social networks
- Programmable Mixed-Signal Fabric for Machine Learning Applications
- Scheduling, Resource Management and Decision Making for Cloud / Fog / Edge Computing
- Security and privacy in p2p electricity trading
- Skyrmion-based Electronics
- Smart Security for Smart Services in an IoT Context
- Spin waves dynamics for spintronic computational devices
- Technology-driven Human Memory Degradation
- Ultrafast spintronics with synthetic antiferromagnets
Human centred computing projects
- Advising on the Use and Misuse of Collaborative Coding Workflows
- Arousal and Scanpath Trend Analysis (a-STA)
- Automatic Activity Analysis, Detection and Recognition
- Automatic Emotion Detection, Analysis and Recognition
- Automatic Experimental Design with Human in the Loop
- Biases in Physical Activity Tracking
- Computational Models to Predict Overnight Hypoglycemia in Type 1 Diabetes
- Computer Graphics - Material Appearance Modeling and Physically Based Rendering
- Evaluating Systems for the Augmentation of Human Cognition
- Learning of user models in human-in-the-loop machine learning
- Machine Learning and Cognitive Modelling Applied to Video Games
- Machine Learning and Explainable AI (EPSRC iCASE studentship)
- Pervasive Technology for Multimodal Human Memory Augmentation
- Smart Security for Smart Services in an IoT Context
- Technology-driven Human Memory Degradation
- User Modeling for Physical Activity Tracking
Artificial intelligence projects
- (MRC DTP) Unlocking the research potential of unstructured patient data to improve health and treatment outcomes
- Abstractive multi-document summarisation
- Applying Natural Language Processing to real-world patient data to optimise cancer care
- Automated Repair of Deep Neural Networks
- Automatic Activity Analysis, Detection and Recognition
- Automatic Emotion Detection, Analysis and Recognition
- Automatic Experimental Design with Human in the Loop
- Balancing security and privacy with data usefulness and efficiency in wireless sensor networks
- Biologically-Plausible Continual Learning
- Computational logic: adventures with the fluted fragment
- Computational logic: super-counting quantifiers
- Contextualised Multimedia Information Retrieval via Representation Learning
- Data Integration & Exploration on Data Lakes
- Data-Science Approaches to Better Understand Multimorbidity and Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Deep Learning for Temporal Information Processing
- Design and Implementation of an FPGA-Accelerated Data Analytics Database
- Designing Safe & Explainable Neural Models in NLP
- Ensemble Strategies for Semi-Supervised, Unsupervised and Transfer Learning
- Event Coreference at Document Level
- Explainable AI and Dialog for Trust in Human-Robot Interaction
- Explainable and Interpretable Machine Learning
- Formal Verification for Robot Swams and Wirelss Sensor Networks
- Foundations and Advancement of Subontology Generation for Clinically Relevant Information
- Generating Goals from Responsibilities for Long Term Autonomy
- Generating explainable answers to fact verification questions
- Hardware Aware Training for AI Systems
- Hybrid Fuzzing Concurrent Software using Model Checking and Machine Learning
- Integrated text and table mining
- Job and Task Scheduling and Resource Allocation on Parallel/Distributed systems including Cloud, Edge, Fog Computing
- Learning of user models in human-in-the-loop machine learning
- Machine Learning and Cognitive Modelling Applied to Video Games
- Machine Learning and Explainable AI (EPSRC iCASE studentship)
- Machine Learning and Robotics (Honda Scholarship)
- Machine Learning for Vision and Language Understanding
- Multi-task Learning and Applications
- Ontology Informed Machine Learning for Computer Vision
- Probabilistic modelling and Bayesian machine learning
- Problems in large graphs representing social networks
- Programmable Mixed-Signal Fabric for Machine Learning Applications
- Reasoning with Natural Language
- Representation Learning and Its Applications
- Skyrmion-based Electronics
- Smart Security for Smart Services in an IoT Context
- Text Analytics and Blog/Forum Analysis
- Trust and Wellbeing in Transparent Human-Robot Interaction Teams
- Verification Based Model Extraction Attack and Defence for Deep Neural Networks
- Zero-Shot Learning and Applications
Software and e-infrastructure projects
- Advising on the Use and Misuse of Collaborative Coding Workflows
- Automatic Detection and Repair of Software Vulnerabilities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Combining Concolic Testing with Machine Learning to Find Software Vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things
- Component-based Software Development.
- Computational Models to Predict Overnight Hypoglycemia in Type 1 Diabetes
- Design and Exploration of a Memristor-enabled FPGA Architecture
- Dynamic Resource Management for Intelligent Transportation System Applications
- Effective Teaching of Programming: A Detailed Investigation
- Exploiting Software Vulnerabilities at Large Scale
- Finding Vulnerabilities in IoT Software using Fuzzing, Symbolic Execution and Abstract Interpretation
- Job and Task Scheduling and Resource Allocation on Parallel/Distributed systems including Cloud, Edge, Fog Computing
- Managing the data deluge for Big Data, Internet-of-Things and/or Industry 4.0 environments
- Scheduling, Resource Management and Decision Making for Cloud / Fog / Edge Computing
- Security and privacy in p2p electricity trading
- Security-Minded Verification for Autonomous Systems
- Using Program Synthesis for Program Repair in IoT Security
- Verification Based Model Extraction Attack and Defence for Deep Neural Networks
- Verifying Cyber-attacks in CUDA Deep Neural Networks for Self-Driving Cars
Theory and foundations projects
- A Multi-Tenancy FPGA Cloud Infrastructure and Runtime System
- Application Level Verification of Solidity Smart Contracts
- Automated Repair of Deep Neural Networks
- Automatic Detection and Repair of Software Vulnerabilities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Blockchain-based Local Energy Markets
- Categorical proof theory
- Combining Concolic Testing with Machine Learning to Find Software Vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things
- Computational logic: adventures with the fluted fragment
- Computational logic: super-counting quantifiers
- Exploiting Software Vulnerabilities at Large Scale
- Finding Vulnerabilities in IoT Software using Fuzzing, Symbolic Execution and Abstract Interpretation
- Formal Methods: Hybrid Event-B and Rodin
- Formal Methods: Mechanically Checking the Semantics of Hybrid Event-B
- Formal Semantics of the Perfect Language
- Formal Verification for Robot Swams and Wirelss Sensor Networks
- Foundations and Advancement of Subontology Generation for Clinically Relevant Information
- Hybrid Fuzzing Concurrent Software using Model Checking and Machine Learning
- Mathematical models for concurrent systems
- Problems in large graphs representing social networks
- Security and privacy in p2p electricity trading
- Security-Minded Verification for Autonomous Systems
- Using Program Synthesis for Program Repair in IoT Security
- Verifying Cyber-attacks in CUDA Deep Neural Networks for Self-Driving Cars
James Elson projects
Data science projects
- (MRC DTP) Unlocking the research potential of unstructured patient data to improve health and treatment outcomes
- Applying Natural Language Processing to real-world patient data to optimise cancer care
- Automated Repair of Deep Neural Networks
- Automatic Activity Analysis, Detection and Recognition
- Automatic Emotion Detection, Analysis and Recognition
- Automatic Experimental Design with Human in the Loop
- Blockchain-based Local Energy Markets
- Computational Models to Predict Overnight Hypoglycemia in Type 1 Diabetes
- Contextualised Multimedia Information Retrieval via Representation Learning
- Data Integration & Exploration on Data Lakes
- Data Wrangling
- Data-Science Approaches to Better Understand Multimorbidity and Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Deep Learning for Temporal Information Processing
- Design and Implementation of an FPGA-Accelerated Data Analytics Database
- Dynamic Resource Management for Intelligent Transportation System Applications
- Ensemble Strategies for Semi-Supervised, Unsupervised and Transfer Learning
- Explainable and Interpretable Machine Learning
- Finding a way through the Fog from the Edge to the Cloud
- Fishing in the Data Lake
- Hardware Aware Training for AI Systems
- Integrated text and table mining
- Learning of user models in human-in-the-loop machine learning
- Machine Learning and Cognitive Modelling Applied to Video Games
- Managing the data deluge for Big Data, Internet-of-Things and/or Industry 4.0 environments
- Multi-task Learning and Applications
- Probabilistic modelling and Bayesian machine learning
- Problems in large graphs representing social networks
- Representation Learning and Its Applications
- Scheduling, Resource Management and Decision Making for Cloud / Fog / Edge Computing
- Security and privacy in p2p electricity trading
- Specifying and Optimising Data Wrangling Tasks
- Text Analytics and Blog/Forum Analysis
- Verification Based Model Extraction Attack and Defence for Deep Neural Networks
- Zero-Shot Learning and Applications
Sophia Ananiadou projects
Richard Banach projects
Riza Batista-navarro projects
Ke Chen projects
- Automatic Activity Analysis, Detection and Recognition
- Automatic Emotion Detection, Analysis and Recognition
- Biologically-Plausible Continual Learning
- Contextualised Multimedia Information Retrieval via Representation Learning
- Deep Learning for Temporal Information Processing
- Ensemble Strategies for Semi-Supervised, Unsupervised and Transfer Learning
- Explainable and Interpretable Machine Learning
- Machine Learning and Cognitive Modelling Applied to Video Games
- Multi-task Learning and Applications
- Zero-Shot Learning and Applications
Sarah Clinch projects
Angelo Cangelosi projects
Lucas Cordeiro projects
- Application Level Verification of Solidity Smart Contracts
- Automated Repair of Deep Neural Networks
- Automatic Detection and Repair of Software Vulnerabilities in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
- Combining Concolic Testing with Machine Learning to Find Software Vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things
- Designing Safe & Explainable Neural Models in NLP
- Exploiting Software Vulnerabilities at Large Scale
- Finding Vulnerabilities in IoT Software using Fuzzing, Symbolic Execution and Abstract Interpretation
- Hybrid Fuzzing Concurrent Software using Model Checking and Machine Learning
- Using Program Synthesis for Program Repair in IoT Security
- Verification Based Model Extraction Attack and Defence for Deep Neural Networks
- Verifying Cyber-attacks in CUDA Deep Neural Networks for Self-Driving Cars
Louise Dennis projects
Clare Dixon projects
Suzanne Embury projects
Andre Freitas projects
Gareth Henshall projects
Simon Harper projects
Samuel Kaski projects
Dirk Koch projects
Kung-kiu Lau projects
Zahra Montazeri projects
Christoforos Moutafis projects
Tingting Mu projects
Mustafa Mustafa projects
Goran Nenadic projects
- (MRC DTP) Unlocking the research potential of unstructured patient data to improve health and treatment outcomes
- Applying Natural Language Processing to real-world patient data to optimise cancer care
- Data-Science Approaches to Better Understand Multimorbidity and Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Integrated text and table mining
- Text Analytics and Blog/Forum Analysis
Paul Nutter projects
Nhung Nguyen projects
Pierre Olivier projects
Norman Paton projects
Vasilis Pavlidis projects
Pavlos Petoumenos projects
Ian Pratt-hartmann projects
Steve Pettifer projects
Oliver Rhodes projects
Giles Reger projects
Rizos Sakellariou projects
- Dynamic Resource Management for Intelligent Transportation System Applications
- Finding a way through the Fog from the Edge to the Cloud
- Job and Task Scheduling and Resource Allocation on Parallel/Distributed systems including Cloud, Edge, Fog Computing
- Managing the data deluge for Big Data, Internet-of-Things and/or Industry 4.0 environments
- Problems in large graphs representing social networks
- Scheduling, Resource Management and Decision Making for Cloud / Fog / Edge Computing