Research Topics
Staff in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences supervise PhD research on a wide range of computing and mathematical sciences topics. In particular, the school has extensive research capabilities in the following areas:
Analytics
- Small firm performance measurement
- Statistics education
Applied Mathematics
- Novel applications, methods and computing
- Counter examples in mathematics
- Maths education
Artificial Intelligence
- Expert Systems
- Modelling Natural Language
- Nature Inspired Evolutionary Computing
- Robotics
Astronomy
- Institute of Radiophysics and Space Research
- Application of applied mathematics and computing for making new discoveries
Information Systems
- Electronic Commerce
- Global Information Technology
- IT Adoption and Diffusion
- Management of Information Systems Function
- National IT Policy Issues
- Strategic Information Systems
Knowledge Engineering
- Computational Intelligence Methods And Applications
- Intelligent Support In Business Applications And In Bioinformatics
- Knowledge Discovery In Brain Science
- Speech And Language Engineering
Novel Computational Paradigms
- DNA Computing
- Quantum Computing
Novel Theories And Applications
- Bioinformatics
- Forensic IT and security
- Geometrics and Ecoinformatics
- RFID
Software Engineering
- Management Of Software Projects
- Software Forensics, The Analysis Of Software Authorship
- Systems Performance Measurement And Improvement
System Usability
- Assessing The Usability Of Work Surfaces
- Processes And Tools To Improve Human Computer Interaction
Students can also work on topics that incorporate aspects of more than one of these research areas, with supervision from staff in those groups.