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PhD Opportunities in Electronics and Electrical Engineering

PhD Research Project opportunities in Electronics and Electrical Engineering

PhD Title	Research Institute	Research Themes	Principal Investigator
Advanced Signal Processing Techniques For Band-limited Optical Communications	Digital Communications	Communications, Signal and Image Processing	Dr Wasiu Popoola
Condition monitoring of permanent magnet machines	Energy Systems	Electrical Power Conversion, Power Systems	Dr Konstantinos Gyftakis
Data Driven Information Recovery in Sensor Systems	Digital Communications	Signal and Image Processing	Prof John Thompson
Data-driven processing of brain activity over networks	Digital Communications	Communications, Signal and Image Processing	Dr Javier Escudero Rodriguez
Deep Multi-Object Characterization of Convolutive Signals	Digital Communications	Signal and Image Processing	Dr Mehrdad Yaghoobi
Development of CMOS based time-of-flight sensor for optical imaging	Integrated Micro and Nano Systems	Bioengineering, Optical Systems and Materials, Sensors	Dr Danial Chitnis
Development of integrated multi-modal sensors for monitoring brain activity	Integrated Micro and Nano Systems	Bioengineering, Sensors	Dr Danial Chitnis
Digital Education in STEM: automated evaluation of students interacting with remote laboratories	Digital Communications	Communications	Prof Timothy Drysdale
Digital infrared detectors	Integrated Micro and Nano Systems	Optical Systems and Materials, Sensors, Smart Wireless Devices and Systems	Professor Robert Henderson
Elucidating the molecular-level interactions between nanocarbons and biological membranes	Infrastructure and Environment Materials and Processes	Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering, Reaction Engineering and Catalysis, Systems Modelling from Atoms to Processes, Materials Design, Processing and Characterisation	Dr Santiago Romero-Vargas Castrillón
Machine learning aided bioimpedance spectral imaging for tissue engineering	Digital Communications	Bioengineering, Signal and Image Processing	Dr Yunjie Yang
Multi-agent AI for coordinating a hardware gig economy	Digital Communications	Communications, Signal and Image Processing	Prof Timothy Drysdale
Offshore Renewable Energy (Industrial Doctorate Centre)	Energy Systems	Electrical Power Conversion, Energy and Climate Change, Energy Policy, Economics and Innovation, Energy Storage and Carbon Capture, Naval Architecture, Offshore Renewable Energy, Power Systems	Prof David Ingram
Optimum Transceiver Design For Visible Light Communication/LiFi	Digital Communications	Communications, Signal and Image Processing	Dr Wasiu Popoola
Power Electronics Research Position with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and University of Edinburgh.	Energy Systems	Electrical Power Conversion	Prof Stephen Finney
Probabilistic Graphical Models in Multi-Target Tracking	Digital Communications	Signal and Image Processing	Dr James Hopgood
Ultra-Fast 3D Vision Using Single-Photon Sensors	Integrated Micro and Nano Systems	Optical Systems and Materials, Sensors	Dr Istvan Gyongy
Variable Stiffness Actuation for Bioinspired Underwater Vehicle Design	Bioengineering Integrated Micro and Nano Systems	Materials and Structures, Optical Systems and Materials, Sensors, Smart MEMS and Microsystems Technology, Smart Wireless Devices and Systems	Dr Francesco Giorgio-Serchi

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