Electrical and Electronic Engineering PhD / MPhil

Candidates carry out original research within the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the areas of three research centres:

• Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering
• Research Centre for Photonics and Instrumentation
• Research Centre for Systems and Control.

Examples of recent PhD theses:

• Papageorgiou, Athanasios. (2009) Strong Stability of Internal Systems Descriptions
• Ahmadi, Reza (2011). Modelling Intensity Control and Stopping Time In Maintenance Optimization
• Chester, Matthew James (2010). Using municipal solid waste composition data to estimate the carbon footprint of managing UK MSW: A method to assist waste management firms with strategic planning and compliance with emerging EU legislation
• Sagianos, Evangelos (2009). Structural identification and the optimal assignment problem.
• Mr Christou, Dimitrios (2011).  Approximate algebraic computations and ERES methodology.
• Jahromizadeh, Soroush (2012). Joint Rate Control and Scheduling for Providing Bounded Delay with High Efficiency in Multihop Wireless Networks
• Grigoriou, Giorgos (2012). Structure Evolving Systems: Model Structure Evolution and System Properties.
• Zhou, Long (2010). Smart grid analysis with particular references to power quality and load forecast
• Qureshi, Hassaan (2011). Graph-Theoretic Channel Modelling and Topology Controls for Wireless Sensor Networks
• Kaed Bey, S.K. (2009). Frequency rule mining for effective protein-protein interaction  inference from gene expression and protein structures.
• Kantartzis, Panagiotis. (2011). Multilevel soft-field tomography
• Couppis, Andreas (2012). In-vitro and In-vivo investigations on myocardial ablation and atherosclerotic plaque erosion modeling utilizing high intensity focus ultrasound (HIFU)
• Hickey, Michelle (2010). A new fibre optic photoplethysmographic sensor for the assessment of splanchnic organ perfusion
• Kerrouche, A.F. (2009). Fibre optic distributed sensors systems for structural health monitoring.
• Tanvir, Huda Muhammed (2012). Finite Element Characterisation of Terahertz Waveguides and Devices
• Williams, Jonathan (2011). Realisation of quantum standards for electrical metrology and their role in the SI
• Pearce, Oliver (2011). Systems analysis of the techno-economic investment required for coal generation with carbon capture and storage
• Jame May (2013). Investigation of Oesophageal and Fontanel Arterial and Venous Oxygen Saturations in Neonates and Infants Utilising Miniature Optical Photometric Sensors