Postgraduate students in Computer Science are attached to a Research Group within one of the main research areas of the Faculty, namely Artificial Intelligence, Information & Software Engineering, and Intelligent Systems Engineering. Applicants should indicate to which of these three areas they are applying. Further details of the areas follow below.

Please Note: A small number of PhD studentships funded by the Department for Employment & Learning (DEL) are still available for 2008 entry. The closing date for completed applications is Friday 30 May 2008 at 4.00 pm

Research within the Artificial Intelligence group is focussed on methodologies for knowledge engineering, reasoning, and classification. This work is being applied to medical informatics and is developing strongly in the direction of "smart homes" technologies for assisted living and methodologies for characterising biometric signals; applications to bioinformatics and natural language processing are through work supporting automated analysis tools for biomedical sciences research and through the development of spoken dialogue systems. The AI Research Group is based on the Jordanstown campus.
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Research within the Information and Software Engineering group is primarily focussed on knowledge and data engineering, software process engineering, and telecommunications and network engineering. Knowledge and data engineering research focuses on integration of heterogeneous data from distributed sources; clustering and classification; computer games development; and image processing. Software Engineering research covers aspects of self-managing systems and autonomic computing, and software system analysis, design, reuse and maintenance. Telecommunications research focuses on intelligent network resource and performance management. The Information & Software Engineering Research Group is based primarily on the Coleraine campus.
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The Intelligent Systems group focuses on research in computational intelligence, including work on spiking neural networks, fuzzy systems, multiple valued logic, cognitive robotics, creative technologies, intelligent multimedia and wireless sensory systems. The research is also being applied to re-configurable computing, hardware-software partitioning, design automation, self-repair of complex embedded systems, service robotics and machine vision systems. The Intelligent Systems Research Centre is newly established in 2007 and represents a significant commitment to leading-edge research infrastructure over the next five years, focusing on bio-inspired computational systems, cognitive robotics, ambient intelligence, and brain/computer interfacing. The Intelligent Systems Research Group is based on the Magee Campus.
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