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PhD studentships

I am currently looking for possible PhD students to join the Knowledge Engineering Group at Liverpool to work on a range of PhD topics, with a focus on Agentic AI and the use of knowledge and reasoning across distributed agents, agent based services, and intelligent service usage on ubiquitous and portable devices. Funding is subject to status and availability, and interested applicants should contact me in the first instance expressing an interest. Studies typically commence at the beginning of the academic year, but may be rescheduled if necessary.

Intern Positions

I am currently not looking for intern positions, and would ask interested parties not to contact me regarding this.

Former Students

  • Dr Reham Alharbi - Automating the Formulation of Competency Questions in Ontology Engineering
  • Dr Samah AlkhuzaeyGenerating Complex Questions from Domain Ontologies
  • Dr Fan Yang - User Modelling for Personalised Recommendation Systems
  • Dr Joshua AlcockHeuristic approaches for the Periodic Multiple Maintenance Person Problem
  • Dr Andrew Roxburgh - Using Graph Neural Networks to Predict Toddler Vocabulary Acquisition
  • Dr Ilsanmi Olade - Usable Secure Interfaces for Mobile Devices
  • Dr Nan ZhiApplications and complexity of greedy algorithms in optimisation and mechanism design
  • Dr David GeletaMinimal Definition Signatures: Computation and Application to Ontology Alignment
  • Dr Gabrielle SantosSelective Sharing; A Dialogical Approach to Ontology Matching
  • Dr Wei BaiAutomated Certification of Online Auction Services
  • Dr Luke RileyDecentralised Coalition Formation Methods for Multi-Agent Systems
  • Dr David C. TarrantA Study of Early Indication Citation Metrics
  • Dr Zurina MudaEnhanced Image Retrieval using Spatial Information and Ontologies
  • Dr Mariusz JacynoSelf-organising Agent Communities for Autonomic Computing
  • Dr Ayomi BandaraSemantic Description and Matching of Services for Pervasive Environments
  • Dr Sebastian SteinFlexible Service Provisioning in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Dr Martin SzomszorDynamic Discovery, Creation and Invocation of Type Adaptors for Web Service Workflow Harmonization
  • Dr Heather Packer - *Ontology evolution for co-operating agents**
  • Jamie Lawrence - Community inference though familiar stranger relationships

Former Research Fellows

  • Dr Adam Sabra - RAMP: Robot Arm Microplate Processing
  • Dr Luke Riley – Dendrites: Enabling Instrumentation Connectivity
  • Dr Hai Wang - TAO - Transitioning Applications to Ontologies
  • Dr Ahmed Saleh - TAO - Transitioning Applications to Ontologies
  • Dr Roxana Belecheanu - ANS: Autonomic Networked System Management Tool for UbiComp in the Home
  • Dr Ronald Ashri - Semantic Firewall
  • Dr Ignazio Palmisano - Evolutionary ontologies for open agent environments
  • Dr Paul Doran - Evolutionary ontologies for open agent environments