Postgraduate supervision
Professor Papadopoulos welcomes applications in all areas of his research. The key requirements for PhD applicants are a good degree, strong software engineering skills, and an exploratory mind. Much of the work has extensive industrial applicability and is done in collaboration with large industrial organisations which are technology leaders in their field.
Despite the many applications of this work in the engineering of technologically advanced systems, such as electric and semi-autonomous cars, the work involved in those PhD projects does not require any knowledge of these engineering domains and is mainly focused on computer science, and the development and implementation of novel algorithms and tools using standard computer equipment and programming environments.
Completed PhDs
Luis Azevedo (2015), Scalable Allocation of Safety Integrity Levels in Automotive Systems
Zhibao Mian (2014), Model Transformation for Multi-objective Architecture Optimisation for Dependable Systems
Shawulu Nggada (2013), Multi-objective System Optimisation with Respect to Availability, Maintainability and Cost
Nidhal Mahmud (2012), Dynamic Model-based Safety Analysis: from State Machines to Temporal Fault Trees
Amer Dheedan (2012), Distributed On-line Safety Monitor Based on Safety Assessment Model
Septavera Sharvia (2011), Integrated Application of Compositional and Behavioural Safety Analysis
David Parker (2010), Multi-objective Optimisation of Safety-Critical Hierarchical Systems
Ian Wolforth (2010), Specification and Use of Component Failure Patterns
Martin Walker (2009), Pandora - A Logic for the Qualitative Analysis of Temporal Fault Trees
Current PhD supervisions
Ioannis Sorokos (submitted 2017), Generation of Model-Based Safety Arguments from Automatically Allocated Safety Integrity Levels
Luis Torrao (expected 2019), Timaeus - Tetrahedral Illuminated Media Augmented Scupltures Art Therapy Studio