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Self-funded PhD project ideas
The projects listed below are interdisciplinary. Candidates are invited to discuss the project they are interested in with the proposed First Supervisor.
Aerospace and Aircraft Engineering
Title: Modelling of buoyancy control for new generation aircraft
First Supervisor: Professor Andy Augousti
Title: Design Optimisation of Innovative Lightweight Stiffened Thin-walled Lower Helicopter Fuselage Panel with Discrete Source Damage Subjected to Combined In-plane Compression and Shear Loads
First Supervisor: Dr Odeh Dababneh
Title: Fabrication, testing and lifetime prediction of bio-based biodegradable composites for aircraft interior panels
First Supervisor: Dr Doni J. Daniel
Title: Performance Evaluation and Failure Analysis of Preventive Corrosion/Erosion Coatings Used in Power Plant and Refinery
First Supervisor: Dr Doni J. Daniel
Title: Modelling and simulation of degradation of ultra high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) under hypersonic flow
First Supervisor: Dr Doni J. Daniel
Title: Multi-fidelity Optimisation of the eVTOL Wing for the Air-taxi concept
First Supervisor: Dr Yujing Lin
Title: Design and performance optimisation of Proton exchange membrane fuel cell for aviation application
First Supervisor: Dr Yujing Lin
Title: Computational investigation of aerodynamic characteristics of a morphing wing configuration
First Supervisor: Dr Yujing Lin
Title: Design and performance optimisation of Proton exchange membrane fuel cell for aviation application
First Supervisor: Dr Yujing Lin
Title: Aerothermal investigation on the effect of in-service burnout on the leakage flows over high-pressure turbine blade tip
First Supervisor: Dr Zainab Saleh
Title: Demonstration and optimisation of a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasmoid for injection into a High-Energy Density Electromechanical Thruster based on Stabilized Liner Compression for a UK Fusion Rocket propulsion program
First Supervisor: Dr Peter Shaw
Title: The use of deep learning and machine learning for the optimisation of space propulsion technologies
First Supervisor: Dr Peter Shaw
Title: Thermal effects and anti-icing efficiency of an icing protection system for large wind turbines
First Supervisor: Professor Jian Wang
Civil Engineering and Construction
Title: Development of framework to promote model-drive practice that would enhance "collaborative costing" approach across value chain in construction
First Supervisor: Dr Sa'id Ahmed
Title: Integrated design approaches of thermo-active building envelope for near zero carbon buildings and environmental sustainability
First Supervisor: Dr Jie Deng
Title: Mapping solar PV potential for existing building stocks in the UK by deep learning of satellite and aerial images data
First Supervisor: Dr Jie Deng
Title: Improving the behaviour of plate girders via modification with additional FRP layers
First Supervisor: Dr Ted Donchev
Title: Hydrological controls on the Vaiont landslide
First Supervisor: Dr Alan Dykes
Title: The application of Eurocode 8 Part 1 around the world
First Supervisor: Professor Costas Georgopoulos
Title: Construction Quality Management in the Digital Age
First Supervisor: Dr Hasan Haroglu
Title: Investigating the Management of the Early Stages of the Building Project Life Cycle
First Supervisor: Dr Hasan Haroglu
Title: Climate change influences on landsliding in the British Isles
First Supervisor: Maia Ibsen
Title: Investigation of the behaviour of high strength concrete (HCS) at elevated temperature
First Supervisor: Dr Hsein Kew
Title: Optimising reinforced concrete elements containing recycled aggregate of equal compressive strength to conventional concrete
First Supervisor: Dr Hsein Kew
Title: CNT/cement nanocomposite materials for structural applications for buildings
First Supervisor: Professor Mukesh Limbachiya
Title: Assessing and improving the productivity of construction labour through resilient interventions against stagnation (in respect of the evolving perspectives of the impacts of pandemics like the coronavirus)
First Supervisor: Dr Paul Missa
Title: Behaviour of under-reamed piles in sand under lateral and vertical loading
First Supervisor: Dr Joshua Omer
Title: Effects of installation methods and polymer support fluids on the lateral load capacity of piled foundations in low to medium permeability soils
First Supervisor: Dr Joshua Omer
Title: Composite timber/FRP elements
First Supervisor: Dr Diana Petkova
Title: Building sustainability and occupant wellbeing: data-driven design optimisation
First Supervisor: Dr Yanyi Sun
Computing and Information Systems
Computing and Information Systems PhD projects listed by first supervisor
Dr Jab Abbass
- Deep learning-based classification of proteins represented by Structural Alphabets to identify potential drug targets
- Automated protein structure annotation with advanced language models
Dr Neda Ahmadi
- Revolutionising Connectivity of Medical Wearable Devices: Harnessing Deep Learning to Enhance Network Performance and Sustainability
- AI-Enhanced Iris Recognition: Transforming Biometric Security for a Safer World
Professor Vasileios Argyriou
Professor Sarah Barman
- Computer vision techniques, including deep learning, applied to recognition of clinical abnormalities on retinal fundus images in large datasets
- Exploration of deep learning based generative adversarial networks (GANs) to mitigate bias in the evaluation of medical images among diverse population and disease sub-groups
Michal Bosy
- Studies in acoustic interactions with liquid drops
- Machine learning and domain decomposition methods for fluid dynamics
Dr Deepak GC
- Security and privacy of energy-constraint Internet of Things communication using distributed AI
- UAV-assisted Distributed Blockchain Technology to Secure the IoTs from DDos
- Intelligent, Energy Efficient and Secure Tactile Communication using Federated Learning in 6G Network
Dr Jarek Francik
Dr Nabeel Khan
Dr Jay Kiruthika
- Machine learning-based cyber security in IoT appliances
- Sentiment Analysis in VoIP messages using machine learning
Pushpa Kumarapeli
Dr Xing Liang
- Automatic Deepfake Detection
- Zero Trust Automation: Advancing Security with AI-based Intrusion Detection System
- Quantum Machine Learning for Sustainable Energy Optimisation
Professor Dimitrios Makris
- Medical image analysis using deep learning
- Human motion analysis using computer vision and deep learning
Professor Maria Martini
- Quality assessment for light-field imaging
- Machine learning for video quality evaluation
- Frame synchronization and access control in machine to machine communications
- Quality assessment and modelling for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming via HTTP (DASH)
- Neuromorphic sensing and computing
Dr Robert Mellor
- Big data modelling the knowledge economy
- Computer modelling the development of organisations in the high-tech entrepreneurship ecosystem
Gregory Mills
Professor Jean-Christophe Nebel
- Two-stream machine learning architecture based on deep learning and HMM for video-based Ambient Assisted Living
- A Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Approach to Characterise and Predict Cataract Formation
- Game Theory for Automatic Video Annotation
- Human Action Recognition using Machine Learning and Multimodal Data
- Deep Learning / Bioinformatics Approach for Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction
- Image-based recognition of unidentified featured objects (UFOs)
Dr Obinna Omego
- Security Risk Analysis of the Blockchain: A Game Theoretical Approach
- Development, Analysis, and AI-Augmentation of Steganographic Blockchain Protocols in Conjunction with Secure Multi-party Computation for Enhanced Privacy and Security
Dr Eckhard Pfluegel
- Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Non-Cooperative Game Theoretic Models for Cyber Security
- Accessing, Querying and Presenting Cyber Security Knowledge: a Tree-based Learning and Teaching Approach
Dr Nada Philip
Professor Christos Politis
- 5G-IoT in the fight against Auto-immune diseases
- Secure AI-enhanced policy framework for digital health data
Dr Tariq Rahim
Dr Farzana Rahman
- Using deep transfer models from natural language processing to predict drug resistance in communicable diseases in humans
- Deep learning enabled alternative drug design for cancer patients
- Transforming the Future: AI-powered Sustainable solution to enable fast response to dangerous pollution levels for a breathable tomorrow
Dr Ahmed Shihab
- Benchmarks for Data Clustering Algorithms in Data Science
- Metadata-based Deep Learning to estimate the quality of Wikipedia Articles
Dr Martin Tunnicliffe
- Improving the Predictive Capability of Type-Token Models
- Improving Throughput in a Wireless Mobile Network using Successive Interference Cancellation with Power Randomisation
Professor David Wertheim
Hu Yuan
Geography, Geology and Environment
Title: Investigating perceptions and barriers to climate adaptation and mitigation strategies in urban and peri-urban environments
First Supervisor: Dr Kerry A Brown
Title: Disasters and the role of community resilience
First Supervisor: Dr Tracey Coates
Title: What role for the voluntary and community sector in promoting community resilience?
First Supervisor: Dr Tracey Coates
Title: Alternative lifestyles: mobile home parks in the metropolitan fringe a UK/US comparison
First Supervisor: Dr Peter Garside
Title: Valuing green and blue urban landscapes
First Supervisor: Dr Peter Garside
Title: Bridging the gap between environment and health - exposure assessment of potentially harmful agents in soil
First Supervisor: Dr Peter Hooda
Title: Fate of microplastics in waste waters and sewage sludge used in agriculture – impacts on the terrestrial environment
First Supervisor: Dr Peter Hooda
Title: Evaluating the meaning and distribution of 'Tree Equity' in Surrey: an interdisciplinary approach
First Supervisor: Dr Mary Kelly
Title: Smart sustainable universities
First Supervisor: Dr David Kidd
Title: The influence of variations in sunlight associated with latitude and the annual solar cycle on driving, road traffic accidents and orientation transport infrastructure
First Supervisor: Dr Naru Shiode
Title: Near-real time and microscale crime prediction
First Supervisor: Dr Naru Shiode
Title: Local variations of biodiversity index
First Supervisor: Dr Naru Shiode
Title: Field scale reconstruction of nineteenth century rural land use using first County Series OS maps and parish area books
First Supervisor: Professor Nigel Walford
Mathematics
Title: The development of mathematical and statistical models of sports betting, with a view to detection of irregular activities
First Supervisor: Dr Gordon Hunter
Title: Making a computer-based tutorial environment for mathematics "intelligent": the design, implementation and evaluation of a tutorial system that learns
First Supervisor: Dr Gordon Hunter
Title: Emergent properties of large databases
First Supervisor: Dr Gordon Hunter
Title: Developing statistical longitudinal models to investigate the effects of life course events and decisions over the long term on the physical and mental health of the elderly
First Supervisor: Dr Peter Soan
Mechanical and Automotive Engineering
Title: Investigation of optical properties of the cornea
First Supervisor: Professor Andy Augousti
Title: Robotic Wireless Sensor Network (RWSN) design to enhance the sensing capability of robotic systems via WSN for IoT robotic applications
First Supervisor: Professor Andy Augousti
Title: Feasibility studies for novel desalination plant designs
First Supervisor: Professor Andy Augousti
Title: Identification and characterisation of liquids using ultrasound and machine learning
First Supervisor: Professor Andy Augousti
Title: Robust perception, decision making and path prediction for autonomous vehicles
First Supervisor: Dr Redha Benhadj
Title: Robotic grasping using dynamic active-pixel vision sensor
First Supervisor: Dr Redha Benhadj
Title: CFD study of fires in mechanically-ventilated nuclear compartments
First Supervisor: Dr Siaka Dembele
Title: Chemical detection using intelligent UAV system
First Supervisor: Dr Olga Duran
Title: Investigating effects of environmental stressors on ecosystem function using hyperspectral leaf reflectance
First Supervisor: Dr Olga Duran
Title: Robust perception, decision making and path prediction for autonomous vehicles
First Supervisor: Dr Olga Duran
Title: SLAM for UAV navigation in GPS and vision denied environments using deep reinforcement learning
First Supervisor: Dr Olga Duran
Title: Enhancement of electrical conductivity of carbon fibre composite for resisting lightening strike on aircraft
First Supervisor: Dr Homayoun Hadavinia
Title: Numerical simulation of deflagration, detonation and DDT in large scale inhomogeneous reactive mixtures
First Supervisor: Dr Ali Heidari
Title: Development of Novel Thermochemical Heat Storage for Waste Heat Recovery
First Supervisor: Dr Sahand Hosouli
Title: Computational modelling and simulation of bio-inspired structures
First Supervisor: Dr Payam Khazaeinejad
Title: Shape optimisation for aesthetics/functional requirements in the context of additive manufacturing
First Supervisor: Dr Payam Khazaeinejad
Title: Hybrid-type finite elements for thermomechanical problems
First Supervisor: Dr Payam Khazaeinejad
Title: Multi-scale modelling and simulation of bio-inspired structures
First supervisor: Dr Payam Khazaeinejad
Title: Advanced composites structures FEA/CFD modelling design and manufacturing
First Supervisor: Dr Spiros Koutsonas
Title: Composite Materials with integrated ‘massless' energy storage for use in civil and mobile applications such as electric vehicles, sustainable buildings, drones, and composite planes
First Supervisor: Dr Spiros Koutsonas
Title: Self-recovery/Self-healing of CdS/CdSe Nanocrystal Junctions
First Supervisor: Dr Spiros Koutsonas
Title: Realignment of resources optimisation techniques for different industrial sectors
First Supervisor: Dr Andy Lung
Title: Numerical investigation of developing laminar flames distorted by turbulence
First Supervisor: Dr Siva Prasad Reddy Muppala
Title: Numerical measurements of two-staged gas turbine combustion for hydrogen enrichment of hydrocarbons
First Supervisor: Dr Siva Prasad Reddy Muppala
Title: Green energy production and treatment of industrial wastewater using mixed anode-coated membrane performance in microbial fuel cell: a sustainable approach
First Supervisor: Dr Siva Prasad Reddy Muppala
Title: Biodegradation of inoculated substrate to generate green electricity using single and multi-stage Microbial fuel cell: an experimental study
First Supervisor: Dr Siva Prasad Reddy Muppala
Title: An investigation into transonic flows over high pressure gas turbine blade tip
First Supervisor: Dr Zainab Saleh
Title: Combustion and detonation of hydrogen with suspended particles and droplets
First Supervisor: Dr Konstantin Volkov
Title: Design and optimisation of wind farms built-in to existing buildings and civil objects
First Supervisor: Dr Konstantin Volkov
Title: Particulate systems in fire safety engineering
First Supervisor: Dr Konstantin Volkov
Title: Tap water treatment with a laser pulse
First Supervisor: Dr Konstantin Volkov
Title: Unmanned aerial vehicle thrust optimisation with ducted propeller in various flight modes
First Supervisor: Dr Konstantin Volkov
Title: Development of ignition systems for energy systems
First Supervisor: Dr Konstantin Volkov
Title: Modelling and simulation of heat exchanger with strong dependence of oil viscosity on temperature
First Supervisor: Dr Konstantin Volkov
Research degrees
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