Graduate research programs
Computing and Information Systems
Research degrees
Students who have a deep interest in computing and information systems, and who have a strong foundation in the computing disciplines through previous study, are invited to apply for entry to the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees.
Visit the Study website to find out more about:
- Course information
- Entry requirements
- Scholarships: eligibility and application dates
- How to apply
Master of Philosophy (Engineering)
Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering)
Finding a supervisor
Researcher profiles
View our People page for individual staff contact information and research topic areas, or contact staff to arrange a discussion: People.
Research projects recruiting students
Digital Twin Approaches for Automated Monitoring, Controlling and Improvement of Bioprocesses
Team: Abel Armas Cervantes
Modelling and Optimisation
Team: Uwe Aickelin
Modelling and Optimisation for Validation
Team: Pauline Lin
Modelling and Optimisation for Validation
Team: Uwe Aickelin
Modelling and Optimisation of Unit Operations
Team: Ling Luo
Conversational agents and interfaces
Team: Jorge Goncalves
Social Computing
Team: Jorge Goncalves
Improving data quality in crowdsourcing
Team: Jorge Goncalves
Designing and Building Smart Clothing
Team: Jarrod Knibbe
Exploring Haptics for Virtual Reality
Team: Jarrod Knibbe
Intelligent Distributed Systems
Team: Aaron Harwood, Maria Rodriguez Read
Computer-aided drug design: predicting and mitigating drug toxicity
Team: Douglas Pires
Microscopy image segmentation using machine and deep learning
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Computational systems biology and mechanobiology of heart growth
Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal
Miniaturised near infrared spectroscopy
Team: Jorge Goncalves, Vassilis Kostakos, Eduardo Velloso
New directions in reinforcement learning for game synthesis: contextual adaptation via theory completion and incompletion
Team: Adrian Pearce
Advanced Process Querying
Team: Artem Polyvyanyy, Marcello La Rosa, Raffaele Conforti
Automated Process Model Repair
Team: Artem Polyvyanyy, Marcello La Rosa, Raffaele Conforti
Robust datamining for medicine
Team: Uwe Aickelin, Pauline Lin
CloudSim: A Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Cloud Computing Infrastructures and Services
Team: Rajkumar Buyya
Green Cloud: Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing
Team: Rajkumar Buyya
iFogSim: A Toolkit for Modeling and Simulation of Resource Management Techniques in Internet of Things, Edge and Fog Computing Environments
Team: Rajkumar Buyya
QoS-Oriented Cloud Workflow Engine
Team: Rajkumar Buyya
Cloudbus
Team: Rajkumar Buyya
Social media analytics
Team: Shanika Karunasekera
View the full list of Computing and Information Systems research projects
Doctoral Colloquium
The CIS Doctoral Colloquium is an annual, one day, research conference for graduate research students in the School of Computing and Information Systems.