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School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Our research students

Our research students carry out their degree under the supervision of at least one academic in our department, with co-supervision across other departments available for interdisciplinary research.

In addition we give research students the opportunity to apply for Graduate Teaching Assistant and Graduate Laboratory Assistant positions. These are paid roles that help students develop and enhance additional skills beyond their research.

Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) and Graduate Laboratory Assistants (GLAs)

Adham Aboulkheir
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Rawaa Al-Wani
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
David Barragan Alcantar
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Michal Borowski
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Farah Chalabi
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Adisaya Charoenphol
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Isabella Ciuta
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: nucleosome positioning; cancer biology; transcription factors; bioinformatics
Samuel Daniels
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Cristina Del Prete
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Domiziana Falaschi
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Fatemeh Faraji
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Hamidreza Ghonchi
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Rifqy Hakimi
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Romina Hashami
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Mohammadreza Jamalifard
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Research interests: Explainable AI and Probabilistic Modeling
Mohammadamin Jarrahi
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Nelson Kimaro
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Vishnu Pratap Singh Kirar
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Artificial Neural Network; Medical Data Science; Digital Health; Bio Body Composition (BBC); Computational Neuroscience; Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) Research interests: Artificial Neural Network; Medical Data Science; Bioinformatics; Body Composition; Computational Neuroscience; Neuroinformatics; Brain Computer Interface
Richard Lay-Flurrie
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Shiguang Liu
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Tamim M. Al-Mulla
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Khizra Maqsood
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Stefan Marincas
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Joshua Mullett
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Computational Modeling; Bio-printing; Synthetic Intelligence Research interests: Bioprinting for Synthetic Intelligence; Cellular Information Processing
Benjamin Murphy
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Data analysis; Video game A.I
Ise Anderson Orobor
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Atitaya Phoemsuk
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Rio Surendran
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Kago Ronald Thipe
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Networks & Data Science – How we can use network analysis and graph-based models to solve real-world problems.
Jingyuan Wang
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Bertie Wheen
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Saba Zahedieh
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Huaizhi Zhang
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Jiacheng Zhu
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Sirui Zhu
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Finance, Python, Stock Trader, Fintech, Computational Finance, Bank Research interests: Boosting Financial Image Recognition Performance through Reverse Image Augmentation -- accepted at ECAI Workshop on AI in Finance (AIFin’24)
Xuqi Zhu
Graduate Laboratory Assistant, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)

Research students

Abdul Abdul Asik Ali
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Adham Aboulkheir
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Adekunle Adebanjo
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Sam Adeniyi
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ishtiaque Ahmed
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Shafiq Ahmed
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Applied Cryptography; Authentication; Artificial Intelligence; Cyber Security; Key Agreement; Network Security
Mahmoud Alfayan
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Mohsin Ali
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Laila Alqahtani
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Askin Altinoklu
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Rawaa Al-Wani
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Stephen Appiah-Kubi
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
- Atiya
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Billy Baker
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
David Barragan Alcantar
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ashish Bhatia
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Eduardo Cedillo Hernandez
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Adisaya Charoenphol
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Mohsin Riaz Chaudhry
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Andrew Clayman
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Samuel Daniels
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Jaimin Dave
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Cristina Del Prete
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Abdolreza Divsalar
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Dileepa Dunukara Mudiyanselage
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Mohamed Hashim Eljak
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Simply, I'm hooked on coding and fixing software issues wherever is found in desktops, laptops, or Handheld devices . You are welcome to ask me about anything around those areas
Fatemeh Faraji
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Muhammad Farooqi
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Rick Fawley
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Unsupervised clustering and machine learning Research interests: Automatic feature weighting in clustering of large data sets; Unsupervised feature selection
Joseph Fuller-Gray
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Jera Gamal Lamey Bekheet Makar
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Nick Gatzoulis
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Ask me about AI and software development
Rifqy Hakimi
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Bara` Hamadeh
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Reyhaneh Hashempour
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Shengyang Huang
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Rahmat Izwan Heroza Ibrahim
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Machine Learning
Mohammadreza Jamalifard
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Research interests: Explainable AI and Probabilistic Modeling
Mohammadamin Jarrahi
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Nelson Kimaro
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Vishnu Pratap Singh Kirar
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Artificial Neural Network; Medical Data Science; Digital Health; Bio Body Composition (BBC); Computational Neuroscience; Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) Research interests: Artificial Neural Network; Medical Data Science; Bioinformatics; Body Composition; Computational Neuroscience; Neuroinformatics; Brain Computer Interface
Geza Koczian
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ganesh Pavan Kartikeya Bharadwaj Kolluri
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Richard Lay-Flurrie
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Shiguang Liu
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Mohammad Lotfi
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Tamim M. Al-Mulla
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Farhan Mahmood
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Stefan Marincas
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Douglas Millward
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Mazen Mohmed Nasr Mohamed Ahmed
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Hassan Moin
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; Web Development; Python; Image Segmentation; Natural language Processing (NLP) Research interests: Computer Vision in Retail
Aryan Morteza
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Internet of Things, Automation, Algorithm
Joshua Mullett
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Computational Modeling; Bio-printing; Synthetic Intelligence Research interests: Bioprinting for Synthetic Intelligence; Cellular Information Processing
Benjamin Murphy
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Data analysis; Video game A.I
Buduka Nchelem
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Dat Ngo
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Machine learning, Deep Learning, Audio Signal Processing
Akashdeep Nijjar
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ise Anderson Orobor
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ludovico Poli
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Emma Poliakova
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ali Pourrouholamin
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Md Moksedur Rahman
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases; Artificial Neural Network; Computational Neuroscience; Brain–computer interface (BCI); Machine Learning Projects; Data Science Research interests: Computational Neuroscience and Neural Data Analysis
Shahin Salarian
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Shafiullah Shinwari
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Isak Suleyman
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Alberto Tates Puetate
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
John Bosco Uroko
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
William Voisine
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Ask me about: Derivatives and Options-Informed Portfolio Strategies; Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI Agents in Financial Forecasting; Event-Driven and Sentiment-Aware Market Prediction; Machine Learning for Macro-Economic and Market Signal Integration Research interests: AI-Driven Financial Forecasting; Derivatives and Portfolio Optimization; Large Language Models and Agent Architectures; Sentiment and Event Dynamics
Jingyuan Wang
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Bertie Wheen
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Paul Wright
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Rizeng Wu
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Yueyi Yang
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Saba Zahedieh
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Huaizhi Zhang
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Weilin Zhang
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Jiacheng Zhu
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Xuqi Zhu
Postgraduate Research Student, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
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