PhD Projects

Students begin their PhD project after the successful completion of the foundation year. Students can choose whether to continue their Summer project as a PhD or whether to take another direction. 

 

 

Working PhD Project Titles and Details

Cohort	Student Name	Project Title	Supervisors	Industry partner
CDT19	Tayfun Karaderi	Visual Synthesis of Forams towards a Formalisation of Phenomics	Tilo Burghardt Daniela Schmidt Dima Damen	n/a
CDT19	Gavin Leech	Tensorised Probabilistic Programming	Laurence Aitchison Martha Lewis Nathan Lepora	n/a
CDT19	Kipp McAdam Freud	Decoding a Mind-Map: Performing SLAM on Neural Data	Nathan Lepora Cian O'Donnell Matt Jones	n/a
CDT19	Grant Stevens	Using Active Learning and Outlier Detection to identify Active Galactic Nuclei	Oliver Ray Sotiria Fotopoulou Malcolm Bremer	n/a
CDT19	Emily Vosper	Temperature downscaling under climate change: How can interpretable AI be used to create a reliable regional climate model?	Dann Mitchell Raul Santos-Rodriguez Laurence Aitchison Peter Watson	n/a
CDT19	Daniel Whettam	Audio-Visual Fusion for Egocentric Computer Vision	Dima Damen Tilo Burghardt	n/a
CDT20	Henry Addison	Machine learning emulation of a local-scale UK climate model	Peter Watson Laurence Aitchison	n/a
CDT20	Otto Brookes	Visual Deep Learning Meets Primatology: Understanding Complex Great Ape Behaviours Computationally	Tilo Burghardt Majid Mirmehdi Prof. Hjalmar Kuehl (German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv))	n/a
CDT20	Oliver Deane	Towards Robot Enhanced Autism Interventions Specialized for the Relational Frame Theory Framework	Oliver Ray Manuel Giuliani (UWE) Freddy Brown (Clinical Psychologist, NHS)	n/a
CDT20	Kevin Flanagan	Grounding Words Using Vision	Dima Damen Nello Cristianini Claire Taylor (QinetiQ)	QinetiQ
CDT20	Vanessa Hanschke	Challenging Concepts of Responsible AI Through Storytelling	Paul Marshall Edwin Simpson Dylan Rees (LV=)	LV=
CDT20	Jack Hanslope	Imitating Careful Experts to avoid Catastrophic Events	Laurence Aitchison	n/a
CDT20	Kevin Kermani Nejad	Self-supervised learning in superficial and deep neocortical layers	Rui Ponte Costa Paul Anastasiades	n/a
CDT20	Tashi Namgyal	Interactive generative models for music	Peter Flach Raul Santos-Rodriguez	n/a
CDT20	Amarpal Sahota	Exploring methods for localization and identification of behaviour changes indicative of Dementia in the CUBOId household	Zahraa Abdallah Raul Santos-Rodriguez	n/a
CDT20	Davide Turco	Language processing in humans and machines: how biomimetic are artificial language models?	Conor Houghton Jeffrey Bowers Martha Lewis	n/a
CDT21	Matt Clifford	ReuseML: Towards a More Sustainably Focused AI Pipeline with Focus on Tactile Robotics	Raul Santos-Rodriguez Nathan Lepora	n/a
CDT21	Daniel Collins	Exploring Social Intelligence through Interactive Multi-Agent Games	Nirav Ajmeri Conor Houghton	n/a
CDT21	Mauro Comi	3D Shape Reconstruction using Optical Tactile Sensing	Nathan Lepora Laurence Aitchison	n/a
CDT21	Alex Davies	Exploring applications and extensions of generative Graph Neural Network (GNN) models	Nirav Ajmeri Telmo de Menezes e Silva Filho	n/a
CD21	Isabella Degen	Learning the correlation and causality of novel factors that cause changes in insulin needs of people with Type 1 Diabetes	Zahraa Abdallah Henry Reeve	n/a
CDT21	Jonathan Erskine	Gradient-based labels for learning from small data	Raul Santos-Rodriguez Alex Hepburn	Thales
CDT21	Roussel Nzoyem	Scaling and error quantification of data-driven fluid simulation techniques for human interaction tasks	Tom Deakin Simon Mcintosh-Smith David Barton	n/a
CDT21	Ellie Prosser	Interactive Agents for Online Child Safety	Matthew Edwards Claudia Peersman	n/a
CDT21	Phillip Sloan	Multimodal Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis	Majid Mirmehdi Edwin Simpson	n/a
CDT22	Harry Field	Enhancing Robot Learning from Human Demonstration	Nathan Lepora Efi Psomopoulou	n/a
CDT22	Riku Green	Addressing Multi-step Error Accumulation	Telmo de Menezes e Silva Zahraa Abdallah	n/a
CDT22	Sven Hollowell	Voice-control of Personal-Computers using Large Language Models	Paul Marshall Raul Santos-Rodriguez	n/a
CDT22	Rachael Laidlaw	Bootstrapping The Process of Fine-Tuning Ecosystem-Specific Animal Classifiers	Michael Wray Edwin Simpson	n/a
CDT22	Beth Pearson	Improving Compositional Understanding Vision-Language Models	Martha Lewis Michael Wray	n/a
CDT22	Kal Roberts	Cooperative Exploration for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning	Telmo de Menezes e Silva      Nirav Ajmeri                            Laurence Aitchison	n/a
CDT22	Andrew Shannon	Model-based Decoding of Neural Activity	Conor Houghton                      David Barton                            Martin Homer	n/a
CDT23	Fahd Abdelazim	Shape Bias in Vision Language Models	Michael Wray Dima Damen	n/a
CDT23	Jack Burnett	A Pipeline for Parametrically Creating User-Tailored Controllers	Anne Roudaut Oussama Metatla	n/a
CDT23	Omar Emara	Collision Localisation and Material Classification	Dima Damen Michael Wray	n/a
CDT23	Lucy Farnik	Towards interpretable and controllable deep language modeling	Conor Houghton Mengyue Yang	n/a
CDT23	Enrique Fernandez	Developing Programmatic Policies for Interpretable and Amendable Reinforcement Learning	Peter Flach Telmo de Menezes e Silva Filho	n/a
CDT23	Vishal Joshi	Generative AI as an aid for narrative co-creation in table-top role-playing games	Kenton O'Hara Nirav Ajmeri	n/a
CDT23	Trisha Khallaghi	Adaptive and Deformable Musical Interfaces	Atau Tanaka Peter Bennett	n/a
CDT23	Tim Lawson	Transformers: Circuits in Disguise	Conor Houghton Mengyue Yang	n/a
CDT23	James OSullivan	Visualising Agent Memory in Equivalence Projective Simulation	Oliver Ray Conor Houghton	n/a
CDT23	Jonathan Raines	A Hybrid Approach to Generative Design	David Barton Ben Hicks	n/a
CDT23	Joseph Trevorrow	Democratising contextual decision making in MAS	Nirav Ajmeri Emanuele Ratti	n/a