| Project ID |
Supervisor |
Department |
Co-supervisor |
Project title |
Availability |
Prospective PhD |
Reserved |
| 1 |
Orkun Soyer |
Biological Sciences |
(----) |
Phenotypic Variability in Chromatic Adaptation of Cyanobacteria |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 2 |
Patrick Unwin |
Chemistry |
Kim McKelvey (Chemistry) |
Data Analysis and Processing in Video Rate Electrochemical Scanning Probe Microscopy |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 3 |
Yulia Timofeeva |
Computer Science |
(----) |
Dendritic calcium waves |
period 1 or period 2 |
No |
reserved for Victoria Ponce |
| 4 |
Dr Xiaowei Zhao |
Engineering |
(----) |
Robust aerodynamic control of large flexible wind turbines |
period 2 preferably |
Yes
|
available |
| 5 |
Igor Khovanov |
Engineering |
(----) |
Characterization of 1/f noise in ion dynamics and stochastic segregation model |
period 1 or period 2 |
No |
available |
| 6 |
Jason Noble |
External (Warwick Analytics) |
(----) |
Big Data Mining in Aerospace for TSB Proof of Concept Project |
period 1 only |
No |
available |
| 7 |
Jason Noble |
| External (Warwick Analytics) |
|
(----) |
Estimation of timings for RCASE algorithm to optimise distribution calculation strategy |
period 1 only |
No |
available |
| 8 |
Jason Noble |
| External (Warwick Analytics) |
|
(----) |
Define Data Performance Metrics for RCASE algorithm |
period 1 only |
No |
available |
| 9 |
Jason Noble |
| External (Warwick Analytics) |
|
(----) |
Data Solutions for Discrete, Non-Discrete Time and Hierarchical Data |
period 1 only |
No |
available |
| 10 |
Mike Tildesley |
External (Exeter) |
Peter Dawson (Physics) |
The role of cattle markets in disease transmission |
period 2 only |
Yes |
available |
| 11 |
Ian Hall |
External (non-Warwick) |
Matt Keeling (Biological Sciences) |
Modelling Response to Bioterrorist Plague |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 12 |
Robert Kerr |
Mathematics |
Roger Green (Engineering) |
The Winds of New York City during Hurricane Sandy |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 13 |
Dwight Barkley |
Mathematics |
(----) |
Neuro-turbulence |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 14 |
Ian Melbourne |
Mathematics |
(----) |
Using deterministic dynamical systems to generate stochastic processes |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 15 |
Thomas House |
Mathematics |
Matt Keeling (Biological Sciences) |
Approximate clustered epidemic networks |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
reserved for Alex Bishop
|
| 16 |
Matt Keeling |
Mathematics |
(----) |
Ecological Modelling and Dynamics |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 17 |
Matt Keeling |
Mathematics |
(----) |
Ecological Modelling and Dynamics |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 18 |
Charo I. del Genio |
Mathematics |
Thilo Gross (External (non-Warwick)) |
Size distribution of ecological niches |
period 1 only |
No |
available |
| 19 |
Charo I. del Genio |
Mathematics |
(----) |
Complexity of musical patterns |
period 1 only |
No |
reserved for Yuping Ren
|
| 20 |
Stefan Grosskinsky |
Mathematics |
Anne Straube (Warwick Medical School) |
Modelling Cell Crawling |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 21 |
Thomas House |
Mathematics |
Charo I. del Genio (Mathematics) |
Properties of extremely heterogeneous networks |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 22 |
Andrew Stuart |
Mathematics |
(----) |
Bayesian Inverse Problems (reserved for Iryna Sivak) |
period 1 only |
No |
reserved for Iryna Sivak
|
| 23 |
Samik Datta |
Mathematics |
Professor Matt Keeling (Mathematics) |
Mathematical modelling of disease spread in honeybees: American foulbrood in the UK |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 24 |
Barbara Szomolay |
Mathematics |
Hugo van den Berg (Mathematics) |
The effect of phosphatase SHP-1 on T cell triggering |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 25 |
James Sprittles |
Mathematics |
Andrew Clarke (Schlumberger) (External (non-Warwick)) |
Optimal Oil Recovery Strategies |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 26 |
James Sprittles |
Mathematics |
Andrew Clarke (Schlumberger) (External (non-Warwick)) |
Detergency-Driven Dripping Droplets |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
27, 28
|
James Sprittles |
Mathematics |
Duncan Lockerby (Engineering)
|
Multiscale Modelling of Liquid Drop Collisions (containing two mini-projects) |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes
|
available |
| 29 |
Matt Keeling |
Mathematics |
(----) |
Epidemiological Modelling and Dynamics: multiple potential projects |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 30 |
Simon Gubbinssimon |
External (Pirbright) |
Matt Keeling (Mathematics) |
What is the persistence threshold for foot-and-mouth disease? |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 31 |
Thomas Hills |
Psychology |
(----) |
The Influence of Competition on Language Evolution |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 32 |
Thomas Hills |
Psychology |
(----) |
Natural Language Processing and Early Language Acquisition |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 33 |
Adam Sanborn |
Psychology |
(----) |
Approximate Inference for Human Understanding of Complex Physical Systems |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 35 |
Keith Briggs |
External (BT) |
(----) |
Femtocell self-organzation |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 36 |
Keith Briggs |
External (BT) |
(----) |
Femtocell timeslot synchronization |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 37 |
James Lloyd-Hughes |
Physics |
Julie Staunton (Physics) |
Multiferroicity emerging from frustrated spin interactions |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 38 |
Matthew Turner |
Physics |
Dr Jack Cohen (Physics) |
Quantifying behaviour |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 39 |
Matthew Turner |
Physics |
Dr Jack Cohen (Physics) |
Extracting the individual from the crowd |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 40 |
Matthew Turner |
Physics |
(----) |
Topological models of swarming |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 41 |
Matthew Turner |
Physics |
Davide Michieletto (Physics) |
The Topological Glass: A Network Phase Transition? |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 42 |
Dr. Nishal Ramadas |
Physics |
Dr. Gareth Alexander (Physics) |
Ultrasonic sensors: From analytical modelling to design optimisation and validation |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 43 |
Gareth Alexander |
Physics |
(----) |
Interactions Between Colloidal Knots in Liquid Crystals |
period 2 only |
Yes |
reserved for Rob Eyre
|
| 44 |
Dr J. A. Brettschneider |
Statistics |
Dr J. Fonseca (Other) |
Modelling granular materials and their properties based on imaging data |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 45 |
Vassili Kolokoltsov |
Statistics |
(----) |
Inspection games from evolutionary and mean-field game perspectives |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 46 |
Ben Graham |
Statistics |
(----) |
The pylearn2 machine learning environment |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 47 |
Ben Graham |
Statistics |
(----) |
Recognizing characters by their rough-path signatures |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 48 |
Ben Graham |
Statistics |
(----) |
The pylearn2 machine learning environment |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 49 |
Ben Graham |
Statistics |
(----) |
Facial Keypoints Detection |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 50 |
Ben Graham |
Statistics |
(----) |
Gradient descent algorithms |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 51 |
Anastasia Papavasiliou |
Statistics |
Ben Graham (Statistics) |
Rough paths and sound recognition |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 53 |
Nikolaos Argyris |
Statistics |
Juergen Branke (Warwick Business School) |
Constructing utility functions from inconsistent preference data for Decision Support |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 54 |
Chris Oates |
Statistics |
Simon Spencer (Statistics) |
Causal inference for protein signalling networks |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 55 |
Dr Richard Savage |
Systems Biology |
Dr Yinyin Yuan (External (non-Warwick)) |
Breast Cancer Digital Pathology using Unsupervised Feature Learning |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 56 |
Dr Richard Savage |
Systems Biology |
(----) |
Getting the most from molecular cancer data using unsupervised feature learning |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
reserved for Jim Skinner
|
| 57 |
Sascha Ott |
Systems Biology |
(----) |
Analysis of TCR sequencing data |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 58 |
Sascha Ott |
Systems Biology |
(----) |
Improved Footprinting of DNase-seq data |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 59 |
Tobias Preis |
Warwick Business School |
Suzy Moat (Warwick Business School) |
Can Flickr activity predict elections? |
period 2 only |
Yes |
available |
| 60 |
Suzy Moat |
Warwick Business School |
Tobias Preis (Warwick Business School) |
Predicting university applications with online data |
period 2 only |
Yes |
available |
| 61 |
Tobias Preis |
Warwick Business School |
Suzy Moat (Warwick Business School) |
Quantifying Future Orientation based on Google data |
period 2 only |
Yes |
available |
| 62 |
Juergen Branke |
Warwick Business School |
(----) |
Multiobjective Simulation Analysis |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 63 |
Juergen Branke |
Warwick Business School |
(----) |
Evolving Control Rules for Complex Systems |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 64 |
Professor Daniel Read |
Warwick Business School |
Hala El Bilbaisi (Warwick Business School) |
Energy Saving Behavior and the UK Energy Market |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 65 |
Prof. Steve Alpern |
Warwick Business School |
Prof. Bo Chen (Warwick Business School) |
Amalgamating Personal Information Through Sequential Voting |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 66 |
Vladimir Deineko |
Warwick Business School |
(----) |
Special structures in hard optimisation problems |
period 2 only |
Yes |
available |
| 67 |
Juergen Branke |
Warwick Business School |
Suzy Farid (Other) |
Integrated Capacity Planning and Portfolio Selection for Biopharmaceutical Production |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 68 |
Anatoly Shmygol |
Warwick Medical School |
Yulia Timofeeva (Computer Science) |
Modelling sodium ion transport in epithelial cells |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 69 |
Ben Fitton |
Warwick Medical School |
Anne Straube (Warwick Medical School) |
Simulation of tip structure evolution on dynamic microtubules |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 70 |
Frances Griffiths |
Warwick Medical School |
Thomas House (Mathematics) |
Social networks and health |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 71 |
Tom Palmer |
Warwick Medical School |
Siew Wan Hee (Warwick Medical School) |
Indirect treatment comparisons with individual patient data meta-analysis of low back pain randomized controlled trials |
period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 72 |
Stephen Royle |
Warwick Medical School |
(----) |
Computational analysis of kinetochore fibre organisation |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 73 |
Alfonso Jaramillo |
Biological Sciences |
(----) |
Computational design of RNA-based oscillatory circuits in living cells using Monte Carlo methods |
Period 1 only |
Yes |
available |
| 74 |
Robert Kerr |
Mathematics |
(----) |
Landscapes and Greenhouse Gases |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 75 |
David Kreil |
Vienna (Boku), Systems Biology |
|
Biomedical Big Data Analyses (I): Characterization & compensation of detection bias in differential gene expression profiling |
period 1 or period 2 |
Yes |
available |
| 76 |
David Kreil |
Vienna (Boku), Systems Biology |
|
Biomedical Big Data Analysis (II): Probe optimization for alternative transcript discrimination |
period 2 only |
Yes |
available |
