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Research degrees

PhD research student applications are welcomed by the IDA Research Group.  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 above. Please note that the topic list is not exhaustive, so feel free to contact a member of IDA with your ideas. 

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

  • Data Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Medical Informatics
  • Environmental Informatics
  • Heuristic Search
  • Evolutionary Computation

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

Description
Supervisor
Funding
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...
Yang Yang
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...
Michael Rustell
Self Funded
Development of an Optical Shape Sensing Method Using Optoelectronic Sensors for Soft Flexible Robotic Manipulators in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Over the last two decades, many soft continuum manipulators have been developed by many academic institutions and industries for MIS (minimally invasive surgery), endoscopy, and colonoscopy because th...
Yohan Noh
Self Funded
Large Language Models (LLM) for Automated Finite Element Analysis
This is a Self-Funded project - please only apply if you have funding to undertake this project Large Language Models such as Chat GPT3 represent a significant development in artificial intelligence ...
Michael Rustell
Tatiana Kalganova
Self Funded
Machine learning for natural language modelling and processing
Text and language processing is of great importance in many applications where an intelligent system is required to understand language and respond to queries. The PhD project will use machine learnin...
Self Funded
Use of Large Language Models (LLM) as a Structural Engineering Design Assistant
This is a self-funded project - please only apply if you have funding to undertake this project Large Language Models such as Chat GPT3 represent a significant development in artificial intelligence ...
Michael Rustell
Tatiana Kalganova
Self Funded
Natural Language Processing for Business Intelligence
For over a decade, the Intelligent Data Analysis Research Group has been working in an extensive area of artificial intelligence and data science. Recent projects include medical imaging, bioimaging, ...
Yongmin Li
Self Funded
Artificial intelligence technology development for medical applications
In this project, advanced deep learning algorithms will be developed for medical data (e.g. biomedical signals, images, sound, touch, pressure, etc.). The sensors will be studied, signal processing me...
Self Funded
 

Fully-funded studentships

Brunel United Kingdom Europe International

Developing AI-based equitable risk prediction models for long-term conditions using longitudinal health data
Brunel United Kingdom Europe International

Investigating an AI-based framework for digital twins in manufacturing

Our funded studentships become available at different times of the year. Please keep checking our page regularly to see the latest funded opportunities. We also advertise all our funded studentships as soon as they become available on the @BrunelResearch twitter account.

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