(Structured PhD) Information Technology
College of Engineering & Informatics,
School of Engineering & Informatics
Course overview
The Structured PhD is a 4-year programme which offers added value to the core component of doctoral training. Students on this programme are offered disciplinary or dissertation specific modules, as well as generic and transferable skills designed to meet the needs of an employment market that is wider than academia.
The programme is flexible and student centred, as candidates choose their own pathways in consultation with their Supervisor and Graduate Research Committee.
Programmes available
Structured PhD (full-time, four years)
Entry requirements
PhD—high Honours standard in the primary degree.
Areas of interest
Artificial Intelligence
Collaborative Virtual Environments
Computational Intelligence
Computers and Society
Distributed Systems and Cooperative Systems
Energy Informatics and Sensor Networks
Enterprise Computing
Image Processing
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Medical Informatics
Simulation and System Dynamics
Researcher profiles
http://www.it.nuigalway.ie/staff/petronel_bigioi.html
Petronel Bigioi
http://www.it.nuigalway.ie/staff/pat_byrne.html
Pat Byrne
http://www.it.nuigalway.ie/staff/des_chambers.html
Dr. Des Chambers
http://corrib.it.nuigalway.ie/
Jim Duggan
http://linitweb.it.nuigalway.ie/staff/griffith/home_pg.html
Josephine Griffith
http://www.nuigalway.ie/information_technology/staff/gerard_lyons.html
Prof. Gerard Lyons
http://datamining.it.nuigalway.ie/
Dr Michael Madden
http://ww2.it.nuigalway.ie/staff/h_melvin/hm_main.html
Dr Hugh Melvin
http://www2.it.nuigalway.ie/omolloy/
Dr.Owen Molloy
http://www.it.nuigalway.ie/staff/con_mulvihill.html
Dr. Conn Mulvihill
http://ww2.it.nuigalway.ie/staff/colmor/index.html
Colm O'Riordan
http://www.it.nuigalway.ie/staff/sam_redfern.html
Dr. Sam Redfern
http://www2.it.nuigalway.ie/mschukat/
Dr. Michael Schukat
http://www.it.nuigalway.ie/staff/finlay_smith.html
Dr.Finlay Smith
http://www.it.nuigalway.ie/staff/karen_young.html
Karen Young
Find out more
Ms. Tina Earls
E tina.earls@nuigalway.ie
PAC code
Structured PhD, full-time—GYJ05
Current project
Handling Nonlinearity and Uncertainty in Drug Delivery Modelling. (Dr. Michael Madden)
Information Retrieval and Game Theory (Colm O'Riordan)
Quality of service (QoS) of VoIP over wireless networks based on synchronised time
(Dr. Hugh Melvin)
Fees for this course
Current Students
Declan Mungovan
PhD (Networks and Agent-
Based Simulation)
"Pursuing a PhD at
NUI Galway has been a great experience in terms of working on leading-edge research topics, interacting with academics and industry at international conferences, and developing core computer science and architecture skills that are an excellent foundation for a career in the software industry.”
