Indira
PhD and research associate Research topic: Crowd behaviour modelling using a new irrational Ant colony technique
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Angham Abdulahad Sabagh
My research area is 'A Framework for Context-Aware Smart Networked Environments' My research focus has been the construction of pervasive context-aware systems that can be conformed and implemented to smart environments.
Supervisor: Dr Adil Al-Yasiri, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Tobias Ackroyd
My research area is 'An iconic interactive medialab — a living lab in the media city for heritage and regeneration'.
Supervisor: Prof Y Lam, Acoustics Research Centre
Mason Adam
My research area is 'Ultra Wide Band Multiple Input Multiple Out Put Wireless Personal Area Network (UWB-MIMO WPAN)'
Supervisor: Dr Martin Hope, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Nadim Adi
My main interest is evaluating the effects of Interactive, moving and intelligent architecture through the use of VR and how would that affect the productivity and comfort of users within such buildings. The research includes topics: future materials, dynamic architecture, evolving buildings. group behaviour
Supervisor: Prof Dave Roberts, Virtual Environments and Future Media
Ahmed Al-Dulaimy
Swarm intelligence and Risk management in Swarm robotics
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Ameera Al-Karkhi
In this research project we aim to provide a secure method for verifying the identity of the user when interacting with the smart environment
Supervisor: Dr Adil Al-Yasiri, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Ahmad Alkhatib
Ahmad's research area is 'investigating QoS issues in sensor network engineering'
Supervisor: Dr Omar Alani, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Fatema Alsebaie
The researcher will adopt an in-depth study for a PhD in "Computer self-efficacy of women in IT profession"; Case studies of Bahrainis women.
Supervisor: Prof Haifa Takruri-Rizk, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Jumaan Alzahrani
My study focuses on the scientific publication processes in Saudi Arabia, the barriers that affect researchers' ability to carry out and publish research and the potential advantages and disadvantages offered by the Internet in the area of scientific publishing.
Supervisor: Prof Grahame Cooper, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Anju Ankush
My research is in the field of Information security. Research main focus on maintaining security, privacy and confidentiality.
Supervisor: Prof Grahame Cooper, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Darah Aqel
Darah's research area is 'Improved access and management of company's Web pages based on the application of web mining techniques'.
Supervisor: Prof Sunil Vadera, Data Mining and Pattern Recognition Research
Rob Aspin
Rob's research is 'sampling and recreating the person in 3D virtual spaces'
Supervisor: Prof Dave Roberts, Virtual Environments and Future Media
Samer Ayyat
Samer's research area is 'Quality of Servie Provisioning in Wireless Sensor Networks'.
Supervisor: Dr Adil Al-Yasiri, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
S Baresi
Research topic: Semantic Based Indexing Technique for Optimisation and Intelligent Document Representation
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Markus Bauer
I am a full time research PhD student studying the sound emission of electrical steering systems.
Supervisor: Dr Andy Moorhouse, Acoustics Research Centre
May Bunny
Multi-criteria optimisation using Prospect theory
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Simon Campion
Simon's research area is 'To model social interaction between animals and humans and reproduce these in virtual animals, allowing them to interact in a believable way with human users'.
Supervisor: Prof Dave Roberts, Virtual Environments and Future Media
Nelson Costa
Lower Body Exoskeleton for Walking Gait Assistance and Performance Augmentation using Compliance Controlled Actuators
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Ayman Daoud
Ayman's research is 'Development of effective e-learning pages'.
Supervisor: Helen Keegan, Virtual Environments and Future Media
Sunrita Dhar-Bhattacharjee
Sunrita's research area is 'Gender segregation in Science, Engineering, Construction and Technology: An Indo British Comparison'.
Supervisor: Prof Haifa Takruri-Rizk, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Toby Duckworth
Toby's research area is 'Researching real-time 3D reconstruction of the human head for improved tele-presence, collaboration and communication across a distance. '
Supervisor: Prof Dave Roberts, Virtual Environments and Future Media
Awatef El Aaimi
A New Methodology for Desigining A Multilingual Bio-Ontology: An Application to Arabic/English Bio-Informatio Retrieval
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Bassim El-achkar
Pattern recognition using PSO
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Abulgasem Elmabruk
A Haptic Surgical Simulator For Cataract Eye Surgery Using Circular Wave Model.
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Lucy Elmer
Lucy's research area is 'subjective perception of room mode control methods based on multiple sources and signal processing'.
Supervisor: Dr Bruno Fazenda, Acoustics Research Centre
David Foale
David's field of study is 'Soundscapes'
Supervisor: Dr W Davies, Acoustics Research Centre
Fotis Georgiou
Fotis' research area is 'Virtual monitoring environments for audio production'.
Supervisor: Dr Bruno Fazenda, Acoustics Research Centre
David Harbon
David's research area is 'quantifying Lombard effect by statistical analysis of sound pressure level of speech in diverse acoustic and noisy environments'
Supervisor: Dr Francis Li, Acoustics Research Centre
Louise Heatley
My research is in the area of informal learning through engagement with mobile and social multimedia, exploring the potential of the second screen.
Supervisor: Prof Nigel Linge, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Graham Hickey
The goal of my PhD research is to define an 'earlier' warning system for IS implementation failures induced by inadequate customer / supplier contracts than is currently available.
Supervisor: Dr Farid Meziane, Data Mining and Pattern Recognition Research
William Hinojosa
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Probabilistic Fuzzy Behaviour Creators.
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Chen Hung (Max) Ho
Tele-Rapport Increase the understanding of how distinct technology approaches to reproducing the face-to-face meeting impact on the building of rapport. Introduce the new measurement of tele-rapport to fill a gap left by the measurements of co-presence, social presence and tele-presence, in order to specifically measure how an effective relationship between collaborators is built during distance working
Supervisor: Prof Dave Roberts, Virtual Environments and Future Media
James Hoggarth
James' research area is 'Profiling and customer segmentation'.
Supervisor: Prof Sunil Vadera, Data Mining and Pattern Recognition Research
Michael Hudelmaier
Michael's research area is 'Inverse calculations of blocked forces in the time domain'.
Supervisor: Prof A Moorhouse, Acoustics Research Centre
Thomas Hughes-Roberts
My research is looking at privacy paradox evident in user behaviour in end-users of web-based services; specifically social networks such as facebook.
Supervisor: Prof Grahame Cooper, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Andrew King
Andrew's research area is 'Low frequency noise from large wind turbines'
Supervisor: Dr Sabine von Hunerbein, Acoustics Research Centre
Sophia Kousidou
Upper limb exoskeleton for patient with stroke
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Zbigniew Koziel
I am investigating human exposure to vibration via measurements in residential environments. I have an interest in Low Frequency Structure-Borne Sound. Due to this project I have an opportunity to research and investigate human response to low frequency vibration and its relationship to annoyance.
Supervisor: Dr David Waddington, Acoustics Research Centre
Susan Lomax
My research area is 'Cost-Sensitive Learning'. As well as exploring the area the aim is to follow on from my masters work which looked at introducing cost-sensitivity into error based decision tree induction algorithms.
Supervisor: Prof Sunil Vadera, Data Mining and Pattern Recognition Research
Abu Fadle Maidin
Fadle's research area is 'affective website design'
Supervisor: Dr Pietro Murano, Virtual Environments and Future Media
Umar Manzoor
Agent Based Network Resource Monitoring and Management System
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Mohd Sharil Mohd Zin
The key aim of the research is to design and develop a prototype medium access control (MAC) protocol for ultra wideband (UWB) communication systems that transmit minimal power especially in mobile networks and test the protocol in a simulated environment using the QualNet network simulator.
Supervisor: Dr Martin Hope, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Shane Montague
Interest areas include Logic, Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering. Currently, I am investigating the use of Abductive Logic Programming to formally model, and reason about Aspect-Orientation.
Supervisor: Prof Grahame Cooper, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Jane Mooney
Jane's research area is 'E-learning in emergency medicine'.
Supervisor: Lee Griffiths, Virtual Environments and Future Media
Carl Moore
The research includes topics such as: Parallel Computing, Distributed Computing, Scalable Algorithms, Image, Geometry and General Data Compression, Network Protocols.
Supervisor: Prof Dave Roberts, Virtual Environments and Future Media
Abd Muhammad
My research is 'Modern signal processing techniques to solve audio related problems'.
Supervisor: Dr Francis Li, Acoustics Research Centre
Laurence Murphy
Laurence's research area is 'High definition IPTV — The future of broadcasting and its implication for networks and communities'.
Supervisor: Prof Nigel Linge, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Charlie Mydlarz
Charlie's field of research is the application of novel techniques for the investigation of human relationships with soundscapes.
Supervisor: Dr Ian Drumm, Acoustics Research Centre
Khanistan (Amy) Namee
My research is investigating on multicast mobility handoff between 3G mobile and WLAN. The aim of the PhD research is to propose a new framework that tries to provide seamless mobility in homogeneous and heterogeneous mobile networks.
Supervisor: Prof Nigel Linge, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Richard Ogden
Richard's research area is 'Location based social media applications'.
Supervisor: Prof Nigel Linge, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Robert Oldfield
I have started a PhD in l. The project aims at installing a WFS system in the Listening Room which is part of the acoustic facilities at the University.
Supervisor: Dr Ian Drumm, Acoustics Research Centre
Eulalia Peris
My research intends to investigate alternative relationships between annoyance or vibration level and other parameters specific to different residential environments
Supervisor: Dr D Waddington, Acoustics Research Centre
Rajah
Interoperability in autonomic software
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Sam Rashida
Research topic: A Novel, Flexible, Multi-Functional Handling Device Based on Bernoulli Principle
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Julian Romero Perez
Julian's research area is 'objective acoustic measurement for the sound quality in critical listening rooms'
Supervisor: Dr Bruno Fazenda, Acoustics Research Centre
Iaonnis Sarakoglou
Interoperable Portable Haptic Interfaces for High Fidelity Tactile Feedback in Immersive Virtual Environments.
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Mohammad Sarfraz
I am doing my Phd in application of Hybrid Intelligent System and Statistical Techniques for BioSignal Analysis, Area of Interest: Artificial Intelligence Systems application to Biomedical domain.
Supervisor: Dr Francis Li, Acoustics Research Centre
Massimo Serafini
Massimo's research area is 'Synthesised music for room acoustic measurement'.
Supervisor: Dr Francis Li, Acoustics Research Centre
Jonathan Sheaffer
Jonathan's research area is 'production of sound fields in small rooms towards standardisation of listening conditions'
Supervisor: Dr Bruno Fazenda, Acoustics Research Centre
Ben Shirley
Ben's research area is 'Audio-related assistive technology'.
Supervisor: Dr W Davies, Acoustics Research Centre
Gennaro Sica
Gennaro's research area is 'Human response to vibrations in residential environments'.
Supervisor: Prof Andy Moorhouse, Acoustics Research Centre
Michael Sturm
I am a fulltime PhD student researching vibro-acoustic emission of non-stationary steering noises and how these noises are perceived by passengers inside the cabin.
Supervisor: Prof Andy Moorhouse, Acoustics Research Centre
Diego Turo
The aim of my Ph.D. is to develop and validate a time domain model predicting acoustical properties of porous materials. This includes both linear model suitable for relatively low amplitude sound and the nonlinear model for high amplitude sound.
Supervisor: Dr Olga Umnova, Acoustics Research Centre
Wang Wei
The project is focused on the study of Quality of Service in Seamless Mobility within the mobile IPv6 network.
Supervisor: Prof Nigel Linge, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Richard Whittaker
Researching into education and developing educational materials designed to enhance the study of technology and science based learning
Supervisor: Prof Nigel Linge, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
Wilson
Monitoring system for dementia disease
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James Woodcock
My research is concerned with identifying the main perceptual dimensions which underlie the subjective impression of sounds from domestic appliances; this will be achieved through jury testing and multidimensional scaling analysis.
Supervisor: Dr Andy Moorhouse, Acoustics Research Centre
Hasan Yahia
The main goal of my research is to design and implement an efficient routing protocol for MANET based on UWB
Supervisor: Dr Martin Hope, Centre for Networking and Telecommunications Research
