Research degrees

Research students are welcomed to Brunel as valued members of our thriving, research-intensive community. A research degree provides the opportunity to investigate a topic in depth, and contribute new knowledge to your discipline.

Supervisors with insight

We strongly recommend that you identify and contact a potential supervisor and develop the research proposal together under the guidance of this member of staff, prior to making an application. Our supervisors create knowledge and advance understanding, and equip research students with the confidence to apply what they have learnt for the benefit of society. Browse all potential supervisor profiles.

Past PhD students

We are pround of the achievements of our doctoral students and nurture their development throughout their PhD journey.  Here is a list of our recent PhD awardees and the subject of thier thesis.

Surname

Abdul Fatah

First  name

Obaidullah

Award

PHD

Thesis subject

Post-production of holoscopic 3D image

Audu

First  name

Abdulkadir

Award

PHD

Thesis subject

Real and Virtual Camera Positioning for 3D Panoramic Image Rendering

Cui

First  name

Jianbin

Award

MPHIL

Thesis subject

Parallelising K-means with Hadoop/Mahout for Big Data Analytics

Deif

First  name

Hatem

Award

PHD

Thesis subject

Single Channel Separation of Vocals from Harmonic and Percussive Instruments

Hashem eiza

First  name

Mahmoud

Award

PHD

Thesis subject

Secure Multi-constrained QoS Reliable Routing Algorithm for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs)

Ibrahim

First  name

Abdulkareem

Award

PHD

Thesis subject

Error Resilience and Concealment in Multiview Video over Wireless Networks

Lawan

First  name

Sagir

Award

PHD

Thesis subject

Adaptive Intra Refresh for Robust Wireless Multi-view Video

Liu

First  name

Zelong

Award

PHD

Thesis subject

High Performance Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Text Mining

Mohd sazali

First  name

Mohd

Award

PHD

Thesis subject

Approximated Transform and Quantisation for Complexity-Reduced High Efficiency Video Coding

Mohib

First  name

Hamdullah

Award

PHD

Thesis subject

End to End 3D Video Communication over Heterogeneous Networks

Parmar

First  name

Minaz

Award

PHD

Thesis subject

MAC-REALM: A video content feature extraction and modelling framework

Turabzadeh

First  name

Saeed

Award

MPHIL

Thesis subject

Automatic emotional state detection and analysis on embedded devices

Wei

First  name

Wenqian

Award

MPHIL

Thesis subject

Multithreading for High Performance Finance Risk Analysis

Zhao

First  name

Yu

Award

PHD

Thesis subject

High Performance Mote Carlo Computation for Finance Risk Data Analysis

Goudarzi

First  name

Forough 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Routing in Vehicular ad hoc Networks using Position Related Information

Cui

First  name

Jianbin 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Optimising MapReduce/Hadoop Scheduling for Big Data Analysis

Ponraj

First  name

Mahesh

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Optimisation of Bandwidth Utilisation in WiMax LTE Networks

Hashem Eiza

First  name

Mahmoud 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Reliable Routing in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Sule

First  name

Mary-Jane 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Scalable and High Performance Data Stream Processing

Khan

First  name

Mukhtaj 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Massive Data Analysis on Smart Grids

Mohd Mohd

First  name

Sazali

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Hardware implementation of multiview video compression schemes

Deif

First  name

Hatem 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Single Channel Source Separation

Sagir

First  name

Lawan 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Error resilience for Multiview Video Communication

Audu

First  name

Abdulkadir 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Real and Virtual Camera Positioning for 3D Panoramic Image Rendering

Abdulkareem 

First  name

Ibrahim

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Error Resilience in MultiView Video Communications

Minaz 

First  name

Parmar 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

MAC-REALM: A video content feature extraction and modelling framework 

Pawi 

First  name

Alipah Bte 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Modeling and Extraction of Fundamental Frequency in Speech Signals

Caruana 

First  name

Godwin 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Parallel Support Vector Machines for Large Scale Spam Filtering

Daylamani 

First  name

Damon 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

MC2: MPEG-7 Content Modelling Communities 

Sanusi 

First  name

Mohammad 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Scalability Techniques for Optimal Video Communications over Heterogenous Mobile Networks

Al-Sultany 

First  name

Ghaidaa 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Context aware Mobile Message Annotation and Processing 
Abubakr 

First  name

Umar 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Multiple Description Coding for 3D Video Communications over Wireless Networks
Hamdullah 

First  name

Mohib

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

3D Video Transport over Heteregeneous Networks
Obaidullah 

First  name

Abdul Fatah

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

Depth Map Generation and 3D Image Processing
Swash

First  name

Rafiq 

Award

PhD

Thesis subject

3D Stereoscopic image capture and visualisation

Surname

First  name

Award

Thesis subject

Abdul Fatah

Obaidullah

PHD

Post-production of holoscopic 3D image

Audu

Abdulkadir

PHD

Real and Virtual Camera Positioning for 3D Panoramic Image Rendering

Cui

Jianbin

MPHIL

Parallelising K-means with Hadoop/Mahout for Big Data Analytics

Deif

Hatem

PHD

Single Channel Separation of Vocals from Harmonic and Percussive Instruments

Hashem eiza

Mahmoud

PHD

Secure Multi-constrained QoS Reliable Routing Algorithm for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs)

Ibrahim

Abdulkareem

PHD

Error Resilience and Concealment in Multiview Video over Wireless Networks

Lawan

Sagir

PHD

Adaptive Intra Refresh for Robust Wireless Multi-view Video

Liu

Zelong

PHD

High Performance Latent Dirichlet Allocation for Text Mining

Mohd sazali

Mohd

PHD

Approximated Transform and Quantisation for Complexity-Reduced High Efficiency Video Coding

Mohib

Hamdullah

PHD

End to End 3D Video Communication over Heterogeneous Networks

Parmar

Minaz

PHD

MAC-REALM: A video content feature extraction and modelling framework

Turabzadeh

Saeed

MPHIL

Automatic emotional state detection and analysis on embedded devices

Wei

Wenqian

MPHIL

Multithreading for High Performance Finance Risk Analysis

Zhao

Yu

PHD

High Performance Mote Carlo Computation for Finance Risk Data Analysis

Goudarzi

Forough 

PhD

Routing in Vehicular ad hoc Networks using Position Related Information

Cui

Jianbin 

PhD

Optimising MapReduce/Hadoop Scheduling for Big Data Analysis

Ponraj

Mahesh

PhD

Optimisation of Bandwidth Utilisation in WiMax LTE Networks

Hashem Eiza

Mahmoud 

PhD

Reliable Routing in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Sule

Mary-Jane 

PhD

Scalable and High Performance Data Stream Processing

Khan

Mukhtaj 

PhD

Massive Data Analysis on Smart Grids

Mohd Mohd

Sazali

PhD

Hardware implementation of multiview video compression schemes

Deif

Hatem 

PhD

Single Channel Source Separation

Sagir

Lawan 

PhD

Error resilience for Multiview Video Communication

Audu

Abdulkadir 

PhD

Real and Virtual Camera Positioning for 3D Panoramic Image Rendering

Abdulkareem 

Ibrahim

PhD

Error Resilience in MultiView Video Communications

Minaz 

Parmar 

PhD

MAC-REALM: A video content feature extraction and modelling framework 

Pawi 

Alipah Bte 

PhD

Modeling and Extraction of Fundamental Frequency in Speech Signals

Caruana 

Godwin 

PhD

Parallel Support Vector Machines for Large Scale Spam Filtering

Daylamani 

Damon 

PhD

MC2: MPEG-7 Content Modelling Communities 

Sanusi  Mohammad  PhD

Scalability Techniques for Optimal Video Communications over Heterogenous Mobile Networks

Al-Sultany  Ghaidaa  PhD Context aware Mobile Message Annotation and Processing 
Abubakr  Umar  PhD Multiple Description Coding for 3D Video Communications over Wireless Networks
Hamdullah  Mohib PhD 3D Video Transport over Heteregeneous Networks
Obaidullah  Abdul Fatah PhD Depth Map Generation and 3D Image Processing
Swash Rafiq  PhD 3D Stereoscopic image capture and visualisation