Postgraduate study with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Research Centre

Learn more about postgraduate study

The Centre has a diverse research community that can offer you outstanding postgraduate support and PhD provision.

Currently, the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Research Centre are recruiting students in the following areas:

Applied Forensic Technology Research (AFTR) Group

  • Audio Forensic Procedures
  • Video Forensic Procedures
  • Media Technology Forensic Standards
  • Media Forensics within the Criminal Justice System
  • Deepfake and Audio/Video Forensics
  • Suspect Location Identification Using Wi-Fi Triangulation

Control and Logistic Group

  • Pitch angle control with fault diagnosis and tolerance for wind turbine generation systems
  • Friction fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control for electronic throttles with sliding mode and adaptive RBF estimator
  • A virtual force interaction scheme for multi-robot environment monitoring
  • State of charge and state of health estimation and thermal management for Lithium-Ion battery in electric vehicles
  • Hybrid methods using neural network and adaptive Kalman filter for estimation and adaptive control of Lithium-Ion battery
  • Robust visual-inertial odometry with point and line features for blade inspection UAV

Industrial Design Group

  • Addressing HMI Issues through Human Factors
  • Upgrading Ergonomic Interface in Contemporary Workplace through Human-Centred Design
  • Psychological and Emotional Impact on Contemporary Human-Centred Industrial Design

Electric Machines and Drives Group

  • Multilevel multiphase electric vehicle drivetrains
  • Model predictive control of multiphase drive systems
  • Multiphase generator/converter topologies and control for wind energy harvesting
  • Selective harmonic elimination PWM and other low-switching-frequency PWM techniques for multiphase converters
  • Control of multiphase matrix converters

Microelectronics Group

  • Impact of nano-meter device variation on circuits
  • Resistive-switching random access memories (ReRAM)
  • Qualification, modelling and prediction of Random Telegraph Noise and device ageing
  • Quantum computing and Cool CMOS
  • Hardware security for IoTs

Sensors and Communications Group

  • Innovative sensor systems for monitoring
  • Non-destructive testing for reliability improvements of microelectronics
  • Medical ultrasound and its applications
  • High power ultrasonics for industrial applications

What to expect as a PhD student

As well as having access to excellent research facilities and first-rate academics within your specialist area, PhD students studying as part of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Research Centre can expect to present their results at internationally leading conferences and publish research papers in leading international technical journals.

For some projects, you will also use industrial test samples and work with industrial partners on externally funded projects.

Contact us to find out more about studying as a postgraduate

I'm privileged to be working with an international team which will have a profound experience in the area of the research.

Sharifa Hatta, who received a national 'Prestigious Innovation Award in the Academia' for her PhD work