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High Performance electrodes for Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells
Develop high-performance electrodes for PCFCs with high activity and high stability.
- Supervisor
- Professor John Zhu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Unveiling the Fluid Dynamics of Fine and Coarse Particles in the Reflux Flotation Cell
Use advanced modelling and measurement techniques to understand the fluid dynamics of fine and coarse particles in the Reflux Flotation Cell.
- Supervisor
- Professor Yongjun Peng and Dr Jiarui Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
AI-assisted alloy design to achieve superior performance
Design new aluminium alloys and steels and the associated processes to achieve superior mechanical properties with the assistance of machine learning, which is a typical AI technology.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mingxing Zhang and Dr Qiyang Tan
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Fair and Secure Federated Learning for Generative AI
Develop robust defenses for federated fine tuning, ensuring fairness, security, and privacy in real-world Gen AI while enhancing model performance and trust.
- Supervisor
- Dr Azadeh Ghari-Neiat, Associate Professor Dan Kim and Associate Professor Guangdong Bai
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Optimising hybrid work for improved wellbeing and performance
Examine how, why, and for whom hybrid work impacts wellbeing and performance, and evaluate workplace interventions to increase the effectiveness and beneficial outcomes of hybrid work.
- Supervisor
- Dr Caroline Knight and Professor Nicole Gillespie
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Psychology
Synthetic organic electrochemistry
This project deals with the development of novel methods for the preparation of pharmaceutical intermediates using electrochemistry
- Supervisor
- Dr David Cantillo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences
Enhancing Efficiency of Foundational Models
Explore techniques such as model sparsity, knowledge distillation, and task-specific adaptation to reduce computational overhead without sacrificing performance.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Multimodal Learning for Advanced Graph Data Analysis
Investigates the multimodal information within graph data using the latest multimodal large language models.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ruihong Qiu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Dynamic modelling of agricultural data using functional and statistical methods
Develop advanced functional models and statistical methods for modelling time-series crop traits, including linear mixed models and Ordinary Differential Equations.
- Supervisor
- Dr Slava Vaisman, Dr Javier Fernandez and Dr Robert Armstrong
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Evaluation of biofilm dispersal of Nontuberculous mycobacteria and Legionella in contaminated water environments
Examine the potential for a compound developed by Industry partner Lixa to disrupt biofilms formed by these microorganisms, and look at developing formulations suitable for treating contaminated water systems.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mark Blaskovich
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences