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	Olver 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	Tilo Burghardt; Majid Mirmehdi	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