You can study an MPhil over the course of one year or a PhD over the course of three years. Part-time study is also available.
You can study either option in any of our research groups:
Female members of academic staff in some Saudi universities may be eligible to apply for PhD entry under our External Joint Supervision Programme. This allows for study to take place in Saudi Arabia with occasional student visits to Strathclyde. In the first instance, prospective applicants should contact the External Joint Supervision Programme administrators in their home institution as local university support is required.
The University of Strathclyde’s Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering is offering a three-year fully funded PhD in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Smart Grids. This is based within the Intelligent Systems Team and will investigate distributed intelligence and the application of state-of-the-art Multi Agent System and related AI techniques to the control of distributed energy systems and smart grids.
We are looking for PhD Students interested in making search engines (and machine learning in general) fairer, more transparent and explainable.
The goal of the project is to investigate the use of evolutionary computation in the development of autonomous systems.
Information is usually assessed using cognitive criteria such as credibility, validity, etc. but often we make decisions on information according to how it makes us feel, e.g. excited, reassured, or annoyed. This PhD program will conduct an in-depth study of these emotional and visceral factors relating to information assessment.
How do we decide what information to trust? Often this has been seen as a matter of intellectual decision-making and rationality, but we also recognise the strong emotional and social forces in decision-making. Other additional factors such as morality, credibility, persuasiveness come into play in a digital environment. How then do we decide who to believe when making life decisions?
Spirituality and religion is an important aspect of many people’s lives. Often however this is missed from the provision of health information which focuses purely on the scientific and secular. This thesis will investigate the relationship between spirituality/religion and how people make decisions about their health. This will enable us to see if we can create health information services that are more appropriate to how people think about their lives.
Large Language Models (LLMs) such, as Chat-GPT, are currently changing all the ways in which people interact with and get help from computers. Since the current changes in the fields of natural language processing and AI in general are so quick, then many aspects of LLMs are not understood, So, adapting them to specific domains is just starting. This includes healthcare, security, business, education, and many others.
Super-large language models such as ChatGPT have demonstrated surprising abilities in handling natural language, solving mathematical problems and writing programming code. Still, there is very little formal assessment of their capabilities in specialised domains, such as medical. The project will explore how certain various clinical events (such as readmitting a patient to a hospital) can be predicted based on the notes that the health professionals write in free text form.
Super-large language models such as ChatGPT have demonstrated surprising abilities in handling natural language, solving mathematical problems and writing programming code. Still, there is very little formal assessment of their capabilities in specialised domains, such as computer security. For example, we can look at watermarking if the generated content, code-word detection, malevolent content detection, authorship identification, etc.
John Anderson Research Studentship Scheme (JARSS) doctoral studentships are available annually for excellent students and excellent research projects.
There are two main sources of funding:
The JARSS 2023/2024 competition will open in October 2023 and students successful in this competition will commence studies in October 2024. Faculties will set their own internal deadlines for the competition.
Academics/Supervisors make the applications for this scheme and there are various deadlines across the Department and Faculties, therefore, in the first instance, all interested students should contact the Department where they would like to carry out their research.
All fees quoted are per academic year unless otherwise stated.
Entrants may be subject to a small fee during the writing up period.
Fees may be subject to updates to maintain accuracy. Tuition fees will be notified in your offer letter.
All fees are in £ sterling, unless otherwise stated, and may be subject to revision.
Students on programmes of study of more than one year (or studying standalone modules) should be aware that tuition fees are revised annually and may increase in subsequent years of study. Annual increases will generally reflect UK inflation rates and increases to programme delivery costs.
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Please note: the fees shown are annual and may be subject to an increase each year.
As part of your PhD degree, you'll be enrolled on the Postgraduate Certificate in Researcher Professional Development (PgCert RPD).
This certificate is designed to support you with your research and rewards you for things you'll do as a research student here.
It'll help you improve skills which are important to professional development and employability:
All you have to do is plan these activities alongside your doctorate, documenting and reflecting your journey to success along the way.
The University Careers Service can help you with everything from writing your CV to interview preparation.
From financial advice to our IT facilities, we have a wide range of support for all students here at Strathclyde. Get all the information you need at Strathlife.
The Strathclyde Doctoral School provides a vibrant and comprehensive student-centred research and training environment in order to grow and support current and future research talent.
The School encompasses our four faculties and is committed to enriching the student experience, intensifying research outputs and opportunities, and ensuring training is at the highest level. As a postgraduate researcher, you'll automatically become a member of the Strathclyde Doctoral School.
Find out more about the Doctoral School
Research supervisors are assigned to you by the Department of Computer & Information Sciences. Let us know in your application who you'd like to work with, but the department will team you up with the best supervisor for your project.
Once we've received your application, your research proposal is passed to potential supervisors for consideration. If it's not compatible with the researcher's current projects and they are unable to supervise, it's passed along to another for consideration. If they can supervise you, they’ll confirm and nominate a potential second supervisor.
As soon as a second supervisor is confirmed, an offer will be sent to you through Pegasus, our online application system.
When you accept our offer of study, you'll receive a full offer in writing via the email address you'll have provided.
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| Dr Leif Azzopardi |
Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Developing, evaluating and modelling information rich and information intensive applications and agents -- and thus we develop novel Recommender Systems and Information Retrieval Systems underpinned by Natural Language Processing, Language Modelling, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. |
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| Dr Milena Dobreva |
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| Prof Feng Dong |
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| Dr Mark Dunlop | Usability of mobile systems including mobile text entry, sensor-driven interaction and evaluation of mobiles. He is increasingly interested in digital health applications of mobile HCI research. User, Keyboard, Design, Patient, Smartphones, Application, Mobile Device. |
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| Dr Kieren Egan |
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| Dr Mohamed Soliman Elawady |
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| Prof Anil Fernando |
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| Prof Neil Ghani | Data type, Models, Parametic Polymorphism, Standards, Functions, Semantics, Programming Language, Vectors, Type Systems, Reasoning, Extensive Form Game, Recursive Definition, Recursion, Rule Induction, Programs, Inductive Definition. | |
| Prof Martin Halvey | Multimodel Interaction, Interactive Information Retrieval and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) |
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| Dr Perla Innocenti |
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| Dr Clemens Kupke | Automaton, Expressive Logic, Semantics, Models, Probabilistic Strategy, Closure, Transition System, Argument. |
Quantum Computing on noise-resilient quantum computing. Coalgebraic foundations for quantitative verification. |
| Dr Marilyn Lennon |
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| Dr John Levine | Domains, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Gentic Programming, Optimization, Game Playing, User, Integer Programming. | |
| Prof Roma Maguire | Her research interests include Digital Health, Remote Patient Monitoring, Supportive Care, Predictive Modelling and Values Based Medicine. Her research spans several clinical specialities including cancer, dementia, cardiac and respiratory disease and palliative/end of life care. She has led several multi-site supportive care and digital health studies in the UK and across Europe. |
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| Prof Radu Mardare | Logics in computer science, logical analysis of systems, computational paradigms, semantics of computation, stochastic and probabilistic systems, quantitative computational paradigms, model theory, category theory. | Categorical approaches to probability theory. |
| Dr Conor Mcbride | Renaming, Semantics, Container, Programs, Funtions, Invartiants, Recursive Definition, Doamins. |
Linear types, Graded monads, linear types, type theory, graded modalities, performance. Quantum computing. |
| Dr Lisa Mccann |
Person-centered digital health interventions and working with people across the life course. Her particular interest areas include families with children with complex health care needs, teenagers and young adults diagnosed with cancer, adults diagnosed with cancer, remote patient monitoring, patient reported outcomes and collaborative / co-design approaches to digital intervention design and development. |
Factors Influencing the Advancement of Digital Health Interventions for Children and Young People in Low to Middle Income Countries: The Case of South Sudan. |
| Dr Yashar Moshfeghi | Computer Science User, Models, information retrieval, Brain Activity, Roles, Accuracy, Detention, Experimental Result. |
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| Dr Karen Renaud | Human-Centred Security and Privacy. Employing behavioural science techniques to improve security behaviours, and in encouraging end-user privacy-preserving behaviours. | Development of an age verification mechanism using a range of desktop sensors to gather information about psychological and behavioural differences. |
| Prof Crawford Revie | The intersection of informatics and the life sciences; in particular with data-driven models of disease and host-parasite dynamics in both human and animal populations. Novel methods to collect, manage and make statistical inferences from large and heterogeneous data sets. | Many of the requirements for NLU/NLP supported tasks within e-commerce can be equally served by task-specific language models, with a smaller associated cost than those found in task-agnostic models, such as GTP-3 or T5. |
| Prof Gobinda Chowdhury | Digital libraries and information services trying to understand how people access and use information and data in different contexts. Recent research includes information systems and services for addressing global challenges and sustainable development. |
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| Dr Richard Roper | Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Computer Personnel, Mental Model, Software, Evaluation. |
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| Prof Wendy Moncur | Human aspects of cybersecurity. Trust, identity, privacy, security online. Life transitions and the role of the internet - e.g. becoming a parent, traumatic events. | Improving Access to Online Accounts for Adults Living with Cognitive Impairments and their Caregivers |
| Prof Ian Ruthven | Information Seeking Theory, Interface design for Information access, User studies. Information retrieval, qualitative and quantitative research methods |
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| Dr Sotirios Terzis | Middlewear, Persuasive Computing, Application, Computing, User, Computing Environment, Contexts, Smart Environment. | Context-aware E-learning for Smart Classroom. |
| Dr Daniel Thomas | Accurate and ethical measurement of security and cybercrime. By measuring security and cybercrime we can monitor improvement, evaluate interventions and inform regulators. This reveals which techniques work and provides the missing economic incentives to improve security and reduce cybercrime. |
Measuring security. Measuring Cybercrime. Vulnerability modelling. Internet cartography. Internet policy inference. ICS honeypots. |
| Prof Jeff Yan | Security, Privacy, Cybercrime and Forensics. | Vulnerability discovery and mitigation in pharmaceutical continuous manufacturing networks |
We research a wide range of areas including theoretical computer science, human-computer interaction, information sciences and software systems.
Our research projects are funded by a wide range of organisations including the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council, the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the Economic & Social Research Council and the European Union.
Find out more about our research
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We look for a first-class or upper second-class UK Honours degree, or overseas equivalent, in a computer sciences discipline from a recognised academic institution.
If English isn't your first language, you'll also need to have an IELTS score of 6.5 as proof of English proficiency.
During the application you'll be asked for the following:
By filling these details out as fully as possible, you'll avoid any delay to your application being processed by the University.
Once you've accepted our offer, we'll need you to fulfil any academic, administrative or financial conditions that we ask.
If you're applying as a UK or EU student, you'll then be issued with your registration documentation.
An ATAS (Academic Technology Approval Scheme) clearance certificate is a mandatory requirement for some postgraduate students in science, engineering and technology.
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