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 Li, Prof L Maguire, Dr A Belatreche
Advanced Interconnect Architectures for Brain-inspired SoC Computing Dr J Harkin, Dr L McDaid, Prof L Maguire
Advanced Learning Methods for Improving Efficiency and Quality for Semiconductor Manufacturing Dr Y Li, Prof L Maguire
BioFace: Bio-inspired Face detection and recognition. Dr A Belatreche, Dr Q Wu, Dr J Harkin
CORIMAN: COntent Representation of IMAges using Neuro-circuits: CORIMAN: Content Representation of IMAges using Neuro-Circuits Dr A Belatreche, Dr Q Wu, Prof T McGinnity
Exploring System-on-Chip (SoC) Computing Architectures for Steganography Dr J Harkin, Dr J Condell, Dr K Curran
HARP: Hardware-centric Architectures for self-RePair Dr J Harkin, Dr Y Li
i-BRAINS: Intelligent BRAIN-like Systems Dr A Belatreche, Dr Y Li, Prof L Maguire
SOSNN: Self-Organisation in Spiking Neural networks Dr A Belatreche, Prof L Maguire
SpikeTemp: Temporal Signal Processing and Learning with Spiking Neural Networks Prof L Maguire, Dr L McDaid, Dr A Belatreche
Cognitive Robotics Team
Bio-inspired Image Processing using Spiking Neural Networks on Hexagonal Grids Dr S Coleman, Dr D Kerr
Bio-Inspired Video and Image Processing Dr S Coleman, Prof BW Scotney
CLSSR: Continuous learning for social and service robotics Dr J Condell, Dr Y Gatsoulis
Copy Detection of Printed Documents using Camera Phones Dr J Condell, Dr L McDaid
CUDA: Modelling of Brain-inspired Neural Network Architectures for Image Processing using Massively Parallel Systems Prof T McGinnity, Dr Q Wu, Prof L Maguire
Focusing Attention in Robot Vision using Evolutionary Computation Dr J Condell, Dr N Siddique
I-LeArNeR: Intelligent Learning Algorithms for Networked Robotics Prof T McGinnity, Dr S Coleman, Dr AK Ray
Intelligent Robotic Hand Grasping Prof T McGinnity, Dr S Coleman
Intelligent Visual Servoing for Real Time Object Tracking Dr S Coleman, Dr AK Ray
RoboForm: Coordinated Formation Control of a team of Mobile Robots Prof T McGinnity, Dr 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 Curran, Dr T Lunney, Mr A McCaughey
(Dynamically reconfigurability P2P mesh networks): Peer to Peer Overlay Networks for Streaming Media to Mobile Devices Dr K Curran, Dr J Santos, Dr S Moffet
(Tracking people inside buildings): Indoor localization Using Singular Wi-Fi Access Points Dr K Curran, Dr T Lunney
Assisted living with a focus on supporting people: VISION: Vocalized Interactive Support for Impaired Optical Negotation Dr K Curran, Dr T Lunney, Dr J Condell
MediaCore: Multimodal semantics creativity Prof P McKevitt, Dr T Lunney, Dr Z Weng
MoodSense: Emotional multimodal interfaces Prof P McKevitt, Dr T Lunney, Dr Z Weng
Using mobile phones for people with diabetes: Mobile Intensive Insulinotherapy Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques Dr K Curran, Dr T Lunney, Mr D Woods
Nanoelectronics Research Team
Virtual Worlds and Serious Games Team
Computational Neuroscience Research Team
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