Ph.D. Students

Studentships Available

The School of Computer Science maintains a list of project adverts proposed by members of staff.

current Ph.D. Students

• Geraint Duc is researching the extraction of methods from computational biology texts and their semantic description and ultimate presentation as workflows. I co-supervise Geraint with Goran Nenadic and David Robertson.
• Maria copeland is working with myself and rob Procter to investigate the social aspects of collaborative ontology authoring.
• Eleni Mikroyannidi is working on ontology comprehension -- how do we enable users to understand the complex, logical artefacts that are OWL ontologies. I co-supervise Eleni with Alan Rector.
• Azlinayati Manaf has started looking at the relationship between the Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS) and the Web Ontology Language (OWL).

Previous Ph.D. Students

• Mikel Egaña Aranguren is looking at the use of design patterns as a way of enriching ontologies in OWL and improving their engineering. His work is the latest manifestation of the GONG project.
• James Eales has been doing some work on the application of text mining to automatic extraction of experimental methods from the phylogenetic literature.
• Paul Fisher is developing methodologies for analysing gene expression data in a systematic and unbiased manner. these are implemented by using Taverna workflows from the myGrid project.
• Rachel BrenchleyIs using ontological classification of proteins described by their sequence features to understand the profile of protein phosphatases in a series of parasites.
• Andy Brown is doing research into how annotations of representations of graph based diagrams can aid reading and understanding by bisually disabled people.
• Karim Nassarhas been investigating methods of knowledge ellicitation in the development of bio-ontologies, especially the use of Concept Maps as a tecnique for the immediate capture of biologists view of the biological world
• Duncan Hull is exploring ways of managing the problem of matching bioinformatics Web services in the construction of myGrid taverna workflows and overcoming the shim problem.
• Jun Zhao researched and developed models of provenance for e-Science experiments as a part of the mygrid project
• Yeliz Yesilada did research on the use of a travel metaphor in the exploration of Web pages by visually disabled people.
• Katy Wolstencroft used ontologies of protein phosphatases to manage a protein phosphatase database (Phosphabase) and to classify the members of that protein family.