Dr Derek Groen
Reader in Computer Science

PhD projects for research students

• PhD opportunity in real-time environmental monitoring and response using machine learning-enhanced simulations
• PhD project in modelling internal displacement with agent-based simulations and policy scenarios
• PhD in multiscale simulation of migration patterns in response to environmental stressors
• An automatic simulation development approach for agent-based (migration) modelling
• PhD project in scalable cloud-based simulations for urban planning in megacities

Research supervision

(listing only projects from the last 5 years)

2015 – CoMPLEX Summer project on modelling brain bloodflow (Rachel Coy, 3 months)

2014 – Summer project on automated ensemble multiscale modelling (Mohamed Itani, 2.5 months, resulted in a journal paper)

2014 – Short summer project on constructing a library for domain decomposition (Rayaan Kanso, 2 weeks)

2014 – 2020 Science internship on clinical validation of our HemeLB bloodflow simulator (Aditya Jitta, 3 months)

2013 – Summer project on weighted domain decomposition (David Abou Chacra, 2.5 months, resulted in a conference paper)