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Research Degrees

PhD research student applications are welcomed by the BSEL Research Group all year round.  Research students are valued members of our thriving, research-intensive team. We are particularly interested in supervising students' research in any of the broad range of topics listed below. Please note that the topic list is not exhaustive, so feel free to contact a member of BSEL with your ideas. 

Some candidate PhD topics that group members are interested in supervising in the future may include, but are not limited to:

  • Software Architecture
  • Software Fault Analyses
  • Understanding of Defects in Software
  • Refactoring and Bad Smells
  • Effort Estimation in Software Projects
  • Search Based Software Engineering
  • Human Aspects of Software Engineering
  • Metrics and Patterns in Software Projects
  • Data Analytics for Software Engineering

See below a list of available PhD projects in Computer Science that includes projects in our area:

Description
Supervisor
Funding
Responsible artificial intelligence for small and medium enterprises in the Global South
We are offering a self-funded PhD position in responsible AI development with the Department of Computer Science. The project focuses on responsible artificial intelligence for small and medium enterp...
Steven Sam
Self Funded
AI-enhanced biological network modeller software: A new horizon in bio-modelling
We are offering a self-funded PhD position in computer science with the Computational Biology Group. The project focuses on utilising AI to improve biological modelling. Applications are accepted on a...
Alina Miron
Leila Ghanbar
Self Funded
Applications for education and/or healthcare: Exploring the potential of ‘human-like’ computing
We invite applications from candidates that have an interest in the area of artificially intelligent human-like computing and exploring the potential of designing, developing, and evaluating prototype...
Arthur Money
Self Funded
Artificially intelligent conversational agents: exploring their value in education and/or healthcare
Artificially intelligent conversational agents (such as ChatGPT) are becoming increasingly common in our everyday lives. The benefits of using these technologies are becoming clear in a range of comme...
Arthur Money
Self Funded
Generative AI for Digital Marketing
In the domain of digital marketing, the integration of Generative AI presents an opportunity to enhance customer engagement, personalise marketing strategies, and optimise decision-making processes. B...
Yongmin Li
Self Funded
Advanced Deep Learning for Medical Imaging
Medical imaging seeks to reveal the structures and activities inside the human body that are normally invisible behind other body parts such as skin and bones. With a wide range of imaging technologie...
Yongmin Li
Self Funded
NLP for Business Intelligence
Business operations involve a large amount of data from their internal communications, presentations, reports, accounting and marketing, and external information from governments, industry sectors, cu...
Yongmin Li
Self Funded
Decision making 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
Self Funded
Decision making 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
Self Funded
AI system for historical handwritten text recognition (HTR)
Libraries around the world digitise the historical handwritten documents to preserve historical past and educate the people about the cultural heritage. However, a reliable optical character recogniti...
Md Nazmul Huda
Self Funded