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PhD Scholarship in Continuous epilepsy monitoring using low power sensors & TinyML at the Discipline:

Employer
University of Galway (NUI Galway)
Location
Galway (County), Connacht (IE)
Salary
€22,000 per annum
Closing date
8 Mar 2024
Discipline

Engineering
Job Type
PhD Studentship
Employment - Hours
Full time
Duration
Fixed term
Qualification
Undergraduate
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University of Galway
Located in the vibrant cultural city of Galway in the west of Ireland, the University of Galway has a distinguished reputation for teaching and research excellence

Detailed Project Description Wearable technologies embedded with multiple intelligent sensors have reached an important cusp where various human factors such as portability, wearability and longer battery life are approaching utility for continuous real-time monitoring in early disease detection and diagnosis, such as epilepsy. The lack of portability and long-term wearability of current commercial wearable devices, as well as their high energy consumption, make it unsuitable and uncomfortable for continuous ambulatory monitoring. The project aims to design high performance ultra-low power analogue front end (AFE) system combined with edge computing ML algorithms that can sense, analyse, process, and autonomously act to detect incipient events such as epileptic seizures.

This project will be undertaken as a 4-year structured PhD programme at the University of Galway, which will involve the completion of 30 ECTS credits of level 9 taught courses.

Every PhD student, in addition to a supervisor, has their own Graduate Research Committee (GRC) of three academic staff members.

The formal role of the GRC is to review the student's progress annually and to make a recommendation to the College on progression into the next year of the programme.

Living allowance (Stipend): The work is supported and funded for a duration of four years by the College of Science & Engineering, University of Galway. The annual stipend is €22,000 and the tuition fees (EU/Non-EU) are waived in full.

University fees:

The university fees for 2024/2025 are €5,750 per annum for EU students and €15,000 per annum for non-EU students.

Additionally, there is a student levy of €140 per annum, which is mandatory for all students to pay.

Start date:
September 2024

Academic Entry Requirements:

Contact Name:
Dr. Soumyajyoti Maji

Application Deadline:08/03/2024 and time 11:00A.M. (Irish time 24hr format)

Primary Supervisor name (if applicable): Dr. Soumyajyoti Maji

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NUI Galway is recognized as a research-led University that addresses issues of global economic and societal importance. Our research strategy focuses on developing clusters of internationally recognised expertise in selected priority areas.

We have developed meaningful and strategic research alliances with economic, social and cultural partners in areas of regional and national importance.

This strategy has resulted in the creation of research clusters in themes that are academically challenging, economically viable and regionally and nationally relevant.

We continue to develop our research priorities within the national and international context in addition to supporting emerging and cross cutting priority area development.

Our priority research areas build upon our key strengths and include:

Biomedical Science and Engineering
Informatics, Data Analytics, Physical and Computational Sciences
Environment, Marine and Energy
Applied Social Sciences and Public Policy
Humanities in Context including Digital Humanities

These priority areas seek to address the challenges and needs of society. Our research leads to life changing discoveries and polices that shape the future both nationally and internationally.

Our vibrant and dynamic community attracts researcher leaders, academics, entrepreneurs and students of the highest calibre who thrive in our research focused environment.

This is embodied though our research commitment, which seeks to:

Contribute to Knowledge
Create partnerships with Industry
Educate Future Leaders
Shape the Direction of Public Policy
Enable Regional and Cultural Advancement

Biomedical Science and Engineering
Developing innovative research programmes that promote the understanding and treatment of today's major diseases.

The core objective of this priority is to serve the needs of patients through research, to provide a real and measurable return on investment, to enhance regional and national enterprise development and to contribute to society through education and scientific outreach.

Researchers focus on some of the major medical challenges that face the world today including cardiovascular disease, cancer, orthopaedic disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.

**Informatics, Data Analytics, Physic