MSc project proposals 2020/21
Inference for models of neuronal activity
| Project ID | Supervisor | Co-supervisor | Project title | Prospective PhD project | Co-funding |
| 1 |
(Computer Science) |
Manipulation-resistant Social Networks | Yes | The student will be encouraged to pursue a connection with TWS partners, world-leading consultancy company specialised in real world applications of game theory. | |
| 2 |
(Computer Science) |
Quantum and Classical Cryptography for Social Benefit | Yes | Potential for industry co-funding. | |
| 3 |
(Statistics) |
Forward stochastic optimisation and its applications in optimal investment | Yes | ||
| 4 |
(Statistics) |
Constrained optimal stopping/control and its application to liquidity risk modelling | Yes | ||
| 5 |
(Statistics) |
On dynamic systemic risk models and mechanisms | Yes | ||
| 6 |
(Statistics) |
Jerome Kelleher | Variance reduction and uncertainty quantification for phylogenetic MCMC | Yes | |
| 7 |
(Statistics) |
Eliciting parameters of multivariate distributions for decision support | Yes | ||
| 8 |
Susana Gomes (Mathematics) |
Marie-Therese Wolfram (Mathematics) | Parameter estimation and model selection for crowd dynamics | Yes | |
| 9 |
(Life Sciences) |
(Life Sciences) |
Survival of the slowest? Relationships between bacterial growth rate and susceptibility to viruses | Yes | |
| 10 |
Robert S. MacKay (Mathematics) |
Community detection | Yes | Identified depending on desired direction, with two possible external partners being Camvit (a SatNav consultancy) and Birmingham City Council (traffic planning). | |
| 11 |
Kat Rock (Mathematics) |
(Life Sciences) |
Real-time decision making and adaptive management for African sleeping sickness elimination strategies | Yes | |
| 12 |
Kat Rock (Mathematics) |
Simon Spencer (Statistics) | Modelling African sleeping sickness at different spatial scales using real-world data | Yes | |
| 13 |
Subhash Lakshminarayana (Engineering) |
Carsten Maple (WMG) | Data-Driven Analysis of Power Grid Dynamics Under IoT-Based Load-Altering Attacks | Yes | EPSRC funding. |
| 14 |
(Warwick Business School) |
Adaptive Reopening after a Pandemic Lockdown: A Project Management Approach | Yes | ||
| 15 |
Richard Everitt (Statistics) |
Xavier Didelot and Jere Koskela (Statistics) | Bayesian inference of reproduction number from genomic data | Yes | |
| 16 |
Richard Everitt (Statistics) |
Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) for calibrating and evaluating Individual Based Models | Yes | ||
| 17 |
Juergen Branke (Warwick Business School) |
Bayesian Optimisation with Travelling Cost | Yes | This project would be in collaboration with Amazon, and we would try to get funding from Amazon (tbc December 2021). | |
| 18 |
Juergen Branke (Warwick Business School) |
Robust Optimisation over Time | Yes | This project would be in collaboration with Amazon, and we would try to get funding from Amazon (tbc December 2021). | |
| 19 |
Juergen Branke (Warwick Business School) |
A/B testing with Bayesian Optimisation | Yes | This project is in collaboration with Peter Frazier from Cornell University/Uber (co-funding will be attempted). | |
| 20 |
Juergen Branke (Warwick Business School) |
Calibration and Optimisation of Biopharmaceutical Processes | Yes | This project would be in collaboration with Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing at Loughborough University (co-funding will be attempted through their contacts). | |
| 21 |
Alexander Fletcher (University of Sheffield) |
Michael Smutny (Warwick Medical School) | Modelling the mechanics of tissue morphogenesis | Yes | Support will be provided to apply for a PhD research studentship through society funding or similar, such as from the Anatomical Society. |
| 22 |
Arpan Mukhopadhyay (Computer Science) |
Dynamics of Information Propagation in Large Networks | Yes | Possible collaboration with London School of Economics (LSE). | |
| 23 |
Paolo Turrini (Computer Science) |
Colm Connaughton (Mathematics) | Intelligent Traffic Control via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning | Yes | |
| 24 |
Ed Brambley (WMG/Mathematics) |
Radu Cimpeanu (Mathematics) | Demonstration of Improved Acoustic Simulation | Yes | Potential collaboration with Airbus, DLR (the German NASA), and Le Mans university's acoustics department. |
| 25 |
Jonathan Harrison (Mathematics) |
Nigel Burroughs (Mathematics) | Coordination of cell division in space and time: mechanistic modelling of the spindle assembly checkpoint | Yes | |
| 26 |
Colm Connaughton (Mathematics) |
Ian Green (Warwick Medical School) | Detecting cardiac irregularities using heart rate data from fitness trackers | Yes | |
| 27 |
Nigel Burroughs (Mathematics) |
Annabelle Ballesta (Institute Curie Paris) | Robustness and design of optimal cancer chronotherapies | Yes | Potential partners include international cancer institutes. |
| 28 |
Mikhail Poluektov (WMG) |
Lukasz Figiel (WMG) | Atomistic modelling of magnetic shape-memory alloys | Yes | |
| 29 |
Till Bretschneider (Computer Science) |
Timothy Saunders (WMS) | Tensorflow segmentation of cells in embryonic development | Yes | The project benefits from strong interactions with our industry partner 3i (Intelligent Imaging Innovations). |
| 30 |
Gabriele C. Sosso (Chemistry) |
Ali H. Hassanali (Trieste) | It's all in the Void: a general-purpose algorithm to find regions of empty space in complex networks | Yes | |
| 31 |
Sebastian Vollmer (Statistics) |
Juergen Branke (Warwick Business School) | Multiobjective optimisation under uncertainty with application to Fairness in ML | Yes | |
| 32 |
Sebastian Vollmer (Statistics) |
(Off Policy-) Reinforcement Learning for risk prediction and intervention | Yes | ||
| 33 |
Sebastian Vollmer (Statistics) |
Temporal cross-validation | Yes | ||
| 34 |
Massimiliano Tamborrino (Statistics) |
Umberto Picchini (Statistics) | ABC for point processes in neuroscience | Yes | |
| 35 |
Massimiliano Tamborrino (Statistics) |
Inference for models of neuronal activity | Yes | ||
| 36 |
Massimiliano Tamborrino (Statistics) |
Interface between numerics and (computational) statistics | Yes | ||
| 37 |
Xuan Vinh Doan (WBS) |
Patient Pathway Capacity Planning with Robust Queueing Theory | Yes | Potential collaboration with an NHS Trust and/or international collaboration on robust queuing theory. |
Reserved projects
| Student | Supervisor | Co-supervisor | Project title | Prospective PhD project | Co-funding |
| Alex Kaye | Robin Thompson (Mathematics) |
(Life Sciences) |
Modelling the impact of a changing environment on vector-borne disease epidemic risks | Yes | |
| Zak Gittins | Robin Thompson (Mathematics) |
(Life Sciences) |
Projecting the effectiveness of control interventions during infectious disease epidemics | Yes | |
| Charlie Hepburn | Giovanni Montana (WMG) | TBD | Model-based off-line reinforcement learning | Yes | University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) |
| Olayinka Ajayi | Tanaya Guha (Computer Science) | Subarna Tripathi (Intel Labs) | Deep Spatiotemporal Models for Video Representation Learning | Yes | This project is part of an ongoing collaboration with Intel AI San Diego and University of California San Diego. The project may receive funding from Intel. |
| Satoshi Komuro | Marya Bazzi (Mathematics) | Magnus Richardson (Systems Biology) | Signed clustering in network neuroscience | Yes | |
| Yiming Ma | Victor Sanchez (Computer Science) | Tanaya Guha and Theo Damoulas (Computer Science) | Digital Twin of Urban Crowd | Yes | Partnership with Transport for London and the Turing Institute. Co-funding will be attempted via EPSRC / Innovate UK. |