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ISRC PhD Studentships Competition 2011 E-mail

The application process for a PhD studentship is currently closed. The ISRC wants to sincerely thank each and everyone who trusted in our institution for enhancing their careers. Congratulations to the ones who managed to obtain one of our studentships, and the best of wishes and luck for future opportunities to the ones who finally could not obtain one.


The original text of the 2011 PhD competition is presented below for your convenience. Please bear in mind that this competition is currently closed and all the information is being presented as part of our archives.

 

The Intelligent Systems Research Centre invites applications for PhD studentships for the following projects. All studentships start on September 2011, include tuition fees, and an annual maintenance allowance of approximately £13,000. If you wish to apply for a studentship please follow the instructions at:

 

http://www.compeng.ulster.ac.uk/rgs/guideForApplicants.php


Please note the closing date is Friday 18th March 2011. Also note that some studentships (DEL Awards) have restrictions on residence eligibility – see the guidance notes for details.

 

For further information contact Professor T.M. McGinnity at tm.mcginnity.ulster.ac.uk

 

The following is a list of the studentships offered for the academic year 2010-2011:

 

Bio-Inspired and Neuro-Engineering Team (BiSNE)

A-Dr: Automatic Data Recovery and Class Imbalance Removal for Intelligent Monitoring and Diagnosis
Dr Y LiProf L MaguireDr A Belatreche

Advanced Interconnect Architectures for Brain-inspired SoC Computing
Dr J HarkinDr L McDaidProf L Maguire

Advanced Learning Methods for Improving Efficiency and Quality for Semiconductor Manufacturing
Dr Y LiProf L Maguire

BioFace: Bio-inspired Face detection and recognition.
Dr A BelatrecheDr Q WuDr J Harkin

CORIMAN: COntent Representation of IMAges using Neuro-circuits: CORIMAN: Content Representation of IMAges using Neuro-Circuits
Dr A BelatrecheDr Q WuProf T McGinnity

Exploring System-on-Chip (SoC) Computing Architectures for Steganography
Dr J HarkinDr J CondellDr K Curran

HARP: Hardware-centric Architectures for self-RePair
Dr J HarkinDr Y Li

i-BRAINS: Intelligent BRAIN-like Systems
Dr A BelatrecheDr Y LiProf L Maguire

SOSNN: Self-Organisation in Spiking Neural networks
Dr A BelatrecheProf L Maguire

SpikeTemp: Temporal Signal Processing and Learning with Spiking Neural Networks
Prof L MaguireDr L McDaidDr A Belatreche

Cognitive Robotics Team

Bio-inspired Image Processing using Spiking Neural Networks on Hexagonal Grids
Dr S ColemanDr D Kerr

Bio-Inspired Video and Image Processing
Dr S ColemanProf BW Scotney

CLSSR: Continuous learning for social and service robotics
Dr J CondellDr Y Gatsoulis

Copy Detection of Printed Documents using Camera Phones
Dr J CondellDr L McDaid

CUDA: Modelling of Brain-inspired Neural Network Architectures for Image Processing using Massively Parallel Systems
Prof T McGinnityDr Q WuProf L Maguire

Focusing Attention in Robot Vision using Evolutionary Computation
Dr J CondellDr N Siddique

I-LeArNeR: Intelligent Learning Algorithms for Networked Robotics
Prof T McGinnityDr S ColemanDr AK Ray

Intelligent Robotic Hand Grasping
Prof T McGinnityDr S Coleman

Intelligent Visual Servoing for Real Time Object Tracking
Dr S ColemanDr AK Ray

RoboForm: Coordinated Formation Control of a team of Mobile Robots
Prof T McGinnityDr AK Ray

Brain Computer Interfacing and Assistive Technologies Team

Ambient Intelligence Team

(context based location aware provision of information): VISIT: Virtual Interactive System for Informing Tourists
Dr K CurranDr T LunneyMr A McCaughey

(Dynamically reconfigurability P2P mesh networks): Peer to Peer Overlay Networks for Streaming Media to Mobile Devices
Dr K CurranDr J SantosDr S Moffet

(Tracking people inside buildings): Indoor localization Using Singular Wi-Fi Access Points
Dr K CurranDr T Lunney

Assisted living with a focus on supporting people: VISION: Vocalized Interactive Support for Impaired Optical Negotation
Dr K CurranDr T LunneyDr J Condell

MediaCore: Multimodal semantics creativity
Prof P McKevittDr T LunneyDr Z Weng

MoodSense: Emotional multimodal interfaces
Prof P McKevittDr T LunneyDr Z Weng

Using mobile phones for people with diabetes: Mobile Intensive Insulinotherapy Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Dr K CurranDr T LunneyMr D Woods

Nanoelectronics Research Team

Brian Inspired Information Processing
Dr L McDaidDr J HarkinDr A Ghani

Modelling Brain Recovery After Injury
Dr L McDaidProf S Kelso

Modelling Information Representation in the Brain Based on Coordination
Dr L McDaidDr J HarkinProf S Kelso

Virtual Worlds and Serious Games Team

Computational Neuroscience Research Team