Postgraduate Research Projects

There are many PhD projects currently available in the Department of Engineering Mathematics. The project titles below link to a short project outline, click on a photograph or name for further information about the relevant supervisor.

For details of how to apply, see the University's Postgraduate Prospectus.

Dr Colin Campbell

• Machine Learning Techniques for Bioinformatics

Professor Alan Champneys

• The Painleve Paradox for impact with friction
• Modelling the onset of root hair growth
• Systems dynamics and dynamical systems. How to measure sustainability?

Dr Caroline Colijn

• Emerging networks and their infections
• Approximating disease on networks by nonlinear incidence models

Professor Nello Cristianini

• Generation of Content for Web Systems
• Intelligent Behaviour in Agents
• Learning Curves in Natural and Artificial Agents

Dr Tijl De Bie

• Understanding the structure of music
• Data mining meets statistics
• Designing experiments

Dr Mario di Bernardo

• Analysis and Classification of Discontinuity-induced bifurcations
• Analysis and synthesis of novel control strategies based on the theory of nonsmooth bifurcations
• Congestion control in communication networks

Dr Luca Giuggioli

• Interacting random walks
• Efficient searching strategy

Professor John Hogan

• A bifuration accumulation point in DC/DC converters
• Dynamics with delay and hysteresis
• Maps with a gap

Dr Martin Homer

• Artificial Muscle Bumps
• Nonlinear dynamics of hearing systems

Professor Bernd Krauskopf

• Dynamics of aircraft on the ground
• Nonlinear dynamics of coupled laser arrays
• Insight into chaos via invariant manifolds

Dr J. Lawry

• Agent-based systems for efficient landing approach strategies
• Evolution of language and meaning in multi-agent systems
• Pattern matching techniques applied to highway traffic data sets

Professor Trevor Martin

• Shallow parsing and evolving dictionaries
• Fuzzy formal concept analysis
• Time-dependent integration of multiple semi-structured sources

Dr Hinke Osinga

• Canards and relaxation oscillations in slow-fast systems
• Global bifurcations in piecewise-smooth and non-invertible maps
• Phase-resetting in neuron models

Dr John Terry

• Seizure prevention via control of neuronal activity
• Seizure prediction using single pulse electrical stimulation

Dr Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova

• Mathematical modelling of spatiotemporal regulation of ERK and NFAT
• Modelling plants guard cells and stomata aperture
• Neuronal intrinsic excitability in normal and pathological conditions

Dr R.E. Wilson

• Action selection and energy autonomy in robots
• Nonlinear dynamics of swarming
• Pattern matching techniques applied to highway traffic data sets