DMU Leicester

Postgraduate Courses in the
School of Computing Sciences

PhD and MPhil Degrees in Computing and/or Mathematical Sciences

(Including Medical Statistics)

Opportunities Available

 As a postgraduate, studying for a research degree in the School of Computing Sciences, you will have the opportunity of working on an exciting and challenging problem at the frontier of knowledge. Under the guidance of a team of supervisors you will be encouraged to develop your technical skills and your powers of critical analysis and independent thought.

Entry Qualifications
You will normally be expected to have obtained a good honours degree (1st or 2nd class) in a subject relevant to your proposed research area.

Training and Support
All full-time research students are required to attend a Research Methods Course during their first year. In addition you will be able to attend a selection of modules chosen from the portfolio of taught masters programmes. These will be selected in consultation with your supervisors dependent upon your existing knowledge and your individual research topic.

You will have regular meetings with your team of supervisors and be encouraged to prepare short working papers and technical reports on your work. You will of course be given useful feedback on both the technical content and presentation of such papers. More formal feedback on your progress will be provided via the School's Research Committee on a semester basis.

Research
Topics
Available
With over 120 highly motivated academic members of staff and 9 Professors, the School is able to support research activity in a wide range of areas in both computing, mathematical sciences and medical statistics.

The School has excellent links with both industry and public bodies so that many of the research topics are related to a particular applications problem. A number of research groups operate in the School and these provide a further focus for research activity

Current research areas include:-

Computing
Sciences
  • 3D Imagery + Human Computer Interactions
  • Synthetic Environments
  • Intelligent and Mobile Robotics
  • Communication Networks
  • Formal Methods
  • Neural Networks
  • Computer Networks
  • Object-Oriented Technology
  • Software Maintenance Reverse Engineering
  • Safety-Critical Systems

Mathematical
Sciences
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Fractal Geometry
  • Finite Element Analysis
  • ANN and Fuzzy Systems
  • Signal and Image Processing
  • Surface Modelling
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Accident Modelling
  • Chaotic Systems Modelling

Medical
Statistics
  • Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials
  • Repeated Measurements
  • Categorical Data
  • Multi-level Modelling
  • Regulatory Statistics
  • Non-linear Mixed Models
  • Medical Diagnostic Systems
  • Intelligent Tutoring Systems
  • Experimental Design
  • Bayesian Methods

Information
Systems
  • Executive Information Systems
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Spatial Information Systems
  • OO Design for Parallel Systems
  • Database Modelling
  • Strategic Information Systems Planning
  • Ethics of Information Systems
  • Information Strategy in NHS

Computer and
Information
Sciences
(based at Milton Keynes)
  • Intelligent Control
  • Digital Typography
  • Animation of Human and Animal Figures
  • Shape Modelling of Deformable Objects
  • Models/Systems for Information Retrieval
  • Human-computer Co-operation
  • Machine Learning and Automated Modelling
  • AI in Modelling, Simulation, Control and Fault Diagnosis

Further Information
The School is pleased to receive applications for either full for part-time study. For those already in employment it may be possible to arrange a collaborative research programme with your employer.

Fees and Awards

For contact details, see foot of page.

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Created by Nigel S. Domaingue, MSc IT 1995/96, updated 17th Jan 1997